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Author Oppenheimer, Margaret A.

Title The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel : a story of marriage and money in the early republic / Margaret A. Oppenheimer.

Publication Info. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2015.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : color illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Summary "Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion and Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from her first husband--a French merchant--and almost lost it to her second--notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, a titanic battle over her estate went all the way to the United States Supreme Court--twice. Family members told of a woman who earned the gratitude of Napoleon I and shone at the courts of Louis XVIII and Charles X. Claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, a wife who defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. Eliza Jumel's real story--so unique that it surpasses any invention--has yet to be told, until now."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Jumel, Eliza Bowen, 1775?-1865.
Jumel, Eliza Bowen, 1775?-1865.
Jumel, Stephen, 1755-1832.
Jumel, Stephen, 1755-1832.
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Jumel, Eliza Bowen, 1775?-1865 -- Family.
Families.
Married women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Married women.
New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject French Americans -- New York (State) -- Biography.
French Americans.
New York (State)
Politicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians' spouses.
United States.
Socialites -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Socialites.
Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Businesswomen.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography.
National Book Committee.
History.
Chronological Term 1775-1865
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Oppenheimer, Margaret A. Remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel 9781613733806 (DLC) 2015029634 (OCoLC)907651749
ISBN 9781613733813 (electronic book)
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