Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel

Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel
Author :
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Total Pages : 424
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781613733837
ISBN-13 : 1613733836
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by : Margaret Oppenheimer

Download or read book Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel written by Margaret Oppenheimer and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious life and times of one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century America Born into grinding poverty, Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of the richest women in New York, with servants of her own and mansions in Manhattan and Saratoga Springs. During her remarkable life, she acquired a fortune from her first husband, a French merchant, and almost lost it to her second, the notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on triumphantly to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, while family members extolled her virtues, claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, and a wife who ruthlessly defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. With this book, author Margaret A. Oppenheimer draws from archival documents and court filings, many untouched since the 1800s, to tell the true and full story of Eliza Jumel.


Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel Related Books

Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Margaret Oppenheimer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-01 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The notorious life and times of one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century America Born into grinding poverty, Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured
Desegregating the Past
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Robyn Autry
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-07 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door mark
City on a Grid
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Gerard Koeppel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-10 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York l
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Robert Newton Peck
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-13 - Publisher: Laurel Leaf

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolat
Famous Colonial Houses
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Paul Merrick Hollister
Categories: Architecture, Colonial
Type: BOOK - Published: 1921 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK