A Notorious Woman

Author : Elizabeth Urban Alexander
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807130249
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth Urban Alexander and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify her claim to his enormous fortune in a case that captivated the nineteenth-century public. Elizabeth Urban Alexander taps voluminous court records and letters to unravel the twists and turns of Gaines's litigation and reveal the truth behind the mysterious saga of this notorious woman. Myra, the daughter of real estate heir Clark and Zulime Carrière, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, was raised by friends of Clark and kept ignorant of her real parentage until 1832, when she discovered her true lineage in letters among her foster father's papers. She thereupon returned to Louisiana with tales of a lost will and a secret marriage between Clark and Carrière and claimed to be Clark's missing heir. Was Myra the legitimate daughter of the prominent merchant or the "fruit of an adulterous union?" The courts would decide. The Great Gaines Case wound its tortuous path through the United States legal system from 1834 until 1891. It was considered by the U.S. Supreme Court seventeen times and pursued even after Gaines's death by lawyers trying to recoup fees. By courageously bringing her case to the courtroom and doggedly keeping it there, Alexander asserts, Gaines helped instigate a new type of family law that provided special protection of women, children, and marriages. Though Gaines never recovered more than a tiny fraction of the rumored millions, this riveting chronicle of her struggle for legitimacy and legacy as told by Elizabeth Urban Alexander is a gold mine for anyone interested in legal history, women's studies, or a good yarn superbly spun.

Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938376
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth J. Clapp and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her long career as a public figure in Jacksonian America, Anne Royall was called everything from an "enemy of religion" to a "Jackson man" to a "common scold." In her search for the source of such strong reactions, Elizabeth Clapp has uncovered the story of a widely read woman of letters who asserted her right to a political voice without regard to her gender. Widowed and in need of a livelihood following a disastrous lawsuit over her husband’s will, Royall decided to earn her living through writing--first as a travel writer, journeying through America to research and sell her books, and later as a journalist and editor. Her language and forcefully expressed opinions provoked people at least as much as did her inflammatory behavior and aggressive marketing tactics. An ardent defender of American liberties, she attacked the agents of evangelical revivals, the Bank of the United States, and corruption in government. Her positions were frequently extreme, directly challenging the would-be shapers of the early republic’s religious and political culture. She made many enemies, but because she also attracted many supporters, she was not easily silenced. The definitive account of a passionate voice when America was inventing itself, A Notorious Woman re-creates a fascinating stage on which women’s roles, evangelical hegemony, and political involvement were all contested.

Author : Amanda McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Amanda McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amanda McCabe
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426804342
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Amanda McCabe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice belongs to the mysteries of night, to darkness and deep waters. And so does Julietta Bassano. The beautiful perfumer hides her secrets from the light of day, selling rose water and essence of violet to elegant ladies rather than taking her rightful place in society. Then enters Marc Antonio Velasquez—a fierce sea warrior determined to claim her. Seduced by his powerful masculinity, Julietta begins to let down her defenses. But in the city of masks, plots spiral and form around Marc and Julietta—plots that will endanger their lives and their growing love….

Author : Malcolm Ross
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780861887972
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Malcolm Ross and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm MacDonald
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312026233
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Malcolm MacDonald and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johanna Rosewarne flees her aunt, her uncle, and her poverty when she meets a young doctor intended for her cousin, but she becomes confused by her feelings after she meets the independent Hal Penrose

Author : Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0399536450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandalous Women written by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events. *When Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) wasn't bathing in asses' milk, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and forged an important political alliance with Rome against her enemies-until her dalliance with Marc Antony turned the empire against her. *Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1748), a mathematician, physicist, author, and paramour of one of the greatest minds in France, Voltaire, shocked society with her unorthodox lifestyle and intellectual prowess-and became a leader in the study of theoretical physics in France at a time when the sciences were ruled by men. *Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1928) fought to end discrimination and the terrible crime of lynching and helped found the NAACP, but became known as a difficult woman for her refusal to compromise and was largely lost in the annals of history. *Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) had a passion for archaeology and languages, and left her privileged world behind to become one of the foremost chroniclers of British imperialism in the Middle East, and one of the architects of the modern nation of Iraq.

Author : Amanda McCabe
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1408921227
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Notorious Woman (Mills & Boon Superhistorical) written by Amanda McCabe and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice belongs to the mysteries of night, to darkness and deep waters. And so does Julietta Bassano. The beautiful perfumer hides her secrets from the light of day, selling rosewater to elegant ladies rather than taking her rightful place in society.

Author : Nicola Cornick
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373775830
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious written by Nicola Cornick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Devlin has everything that he wants: a title and a rich fiance. But all that is threatened by one notorious heartbreaker: Susanna Burney, who is paid by rich society parents to ruin the unsuitable matches of their children. Original.

Author : Allison Brennan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250035058
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious written by Allison Brennan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxine Revere, a nationally renowned investigator of cold cases, looks into the suspicious suicide of an old friend in an attempt to clear his name in the killing of Max's best friend thirteen years earlier, when they were all high school students.