Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington / Patricia Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Patricia, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollard, Madeline, 1863-1945.

Pollard, Madeline.

Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904.

Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston.

Sex scandals--United States--History--19th century.

Sex scandals.

Scandals--United States--History--19th century.

Scandals.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index.

ISBN:

9780374252663

0374252661

OCLC:

1050144218