The Resource Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington, Patricia Miller
Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington, Patricia Miller
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The item Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington, Patricia Miller represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 368 pages
- Contents
-
- Gold to be made
- A bright and brainy woman
- A bastard catch'd
- The left-hand road
- The Wanton widow
- Not so easily handled
- What shall we do with our daughters?
- For the likes of me
- The needle, the school room, and the store
- A house of mercy
- Miss Pollard's ruin in Lexington
- Somebody's daughter
- A man of passion
- Hindered, not ruined
- The front parlor and the back gate
- The cavalier and the puritans
- Refusing to behave
- Redemption
- Isbn
- 9780374252663
- Label
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Title
- Bringing down the Colonel
- Title remainder
- a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Statement of responsibility
- Patricia Miller
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miller, Patricia
- Dewey number
- 973.8092/2
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E664.P75
- LC item number
- M55 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Pollard, Madeline
- Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston
- Sex scandals
- Scandals
- Label
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington, Patricia Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Gold to be made -- A bright and brainy woman -- A bastard catch'd -- The left-hand road -- The Wanton widow -- Not so easily handled -- What shall we do with our daughters? -- For the likes of me -- The needle, the school room, and the store -- A house of mercy -- Miss Pollard's ruin in Lexington -- Somebody's daughter -- A man of passion -- Hindered, not ruined -- The front parlor and the back gate -- The cavalier and the puritans -- Refusing to behave -- Redemption
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 368 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374252663
- Lccn
- 2018016403
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1050144218
- Label
- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington, Patricia Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Gold to be made -- A bright and brainy woman -- A bastard catch'd -- The left-hand road -- The Wanton widow -- Not so easily handled -- What shall we do with our daughters? -- For the likes of me -- The needle, the school room, and the store -- A house of mercy -- Miss Pollard's ruin in Lexington -- Somebody's daughter -- A man of passion -- Hindered, not ruined -- The front parlor and the back gate -- The cavalier and the puritans -- Refusing to behave -- Redemption
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 368 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374252663
- Lccn
- 2018016403
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1050144218
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