The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic

by Margaret A. Oppenheimer and Susan Mallery

Book Overview

Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613733801
• ISBN13: 9781613733806
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"