The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic [First edition] 9781613733806, 1613733801

"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, i

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English Pages xi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2016

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The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic [First edition]
 9781613733806, 1613733801

Table of contents :
Beginnings --
A house of bad fame --
A death in the family --
The making of a merchant --
Transitions --
Reinvention --
Marriage --
Mrs. Jumel --
Bloomingdale --
The fortunes of war --
Mount Stephen --
France beckons --
An imperial interlude --
Paris --
The collector --
Separate lives --
Indecision --
Place Vendome --
The panic of 1825 --
All about money --
Deception --
The reunion --
An arranged marriage --
Enter Aaron Burr --
A calculated courtship --
An optimistic beginning --
The unraveling --
The duel --
Financial shenanigans --
The widow's mite --
A second family --
Madame Jumel --
Eliza Burr abroad --
The end of an era --
A disputed inheritance --
Proliferating pretenders --
Enter George Washington --
On the home front --
Murder most foul?

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