(Library ebook) Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography Series)
♛ Elizabeth Urban Alexander ♛
| #3181682 in Books | Louisiana State Univ Pr | 2004-10-01 | 2004-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.86 x.92 x6.48l,1.01 | File Name: 0807130249 | 328 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Superb Scholarship, Great Story, Important Book|By El Viejo Topo|I was unaware of the Gaines case until I stumbled over some stuff relating to it while working on another project involving New Orleans and financial history. A lucky find. This is a superior work of careful historical scholarship that is grounded in a massive investigation of primary sources. The angle is intere|From Publishers Weekly|Myra Clark Gaines was 25 and about to be married when she discovered that the couple who had raised her were not her birth parents and that she was the daughter of one of the richest men in America, Daniel Clark. Thus began Myra's lifelon
The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify her claim to his enormous fortune in a case that captivated the nineteenth-century public. Elizabeth Urban Alexander taps voluminous court records and letters to unra...
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