Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
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Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
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- Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Title remainder
- a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
- Statement of responsibility
- Patricia Miller
- Subject
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- Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904
- History
- History
- Pollard, Madeline, 1863-1945
- Pollard, Madeline, approximately 1866-
- Scandals
- Biographies
- Sex scandals
- Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- Scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Biographies
- 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"--
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- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
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- Dewey number
- 973.8092/2
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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