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The Bluestocking: The Story of the Famous Forrest Divorce Case

David Delman

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Description:The mutual divorce suit between Edwin Forrest, whom Kenneth Branagh calls "the premier Shakespearean actor of his time," and his "advanced" intellectual wife Catherine is the stuff of a tabloid editor's dream. Forrest had already made headlines with his feud with the British actor William Macready, a feud that had led to bloodshed on both sides of the Atlantic and a riot in New York that caused thirty-one deaths. And then in 1852 came what is still the longest divorce suit ever to be tried in the New York State Supreme Court - with charges and countercharges, suborning of witnesses, lurid descriptions of presumed abortions, accusations of drunken parties, and, of course, adultery. David Delman, who performed a magical feat in weaving fact and fiction in Ain't Goin' to Glory, his novel about the Civil War draft riots in New York, again shows his talent for basing an intriguing novel on an actual historical event. Mingling true-life characters with equally convincing people of his own creation, he gives readers the full effect of this sizzling nineteenth-century scandal (including actual excerpts from the trial) and augments it with a charming love story. His fictional hero, a reporter on Horace Greeley's Tribune, is himself irresistibly drawn to a young friend of Catherine's, an artist and "advanced" woman in her own right, and must come to terms with an emerging conception of women that clashes with values he had taken for granted all his life. As added spice, the author takes us backstage at the classic theatre of the time, when passions ran high on both sides of the curtain.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Bluestocking: The Story of the Famous Forrest Divorce Case. To get started finding The Bluestocking: The Story of the Famous Forrest Divorce Case, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The mutual divorce suit between Edwin Forrest, whom Kenneth Branagh calls "the premier Shakespearean actor of his time," and his "advanced" intellectual wife Catherine is the stuff of a tabloid editor's dream. Forrest had already made headlines with his feud with the British actor William Macready, a feud that had led to bloodshed on both sides of the Atlantic and a riot in New York that caused thirty-one deaths. And then in 1852 came what is still the longest divorce suit ever to be tried in the New York State Supreme Court - with charges and countercharges, suborning of witnesses, lurid descriptions of presumed abortions, accusations of drunken parties, and, of course, adultery. David Delman, who performed a magical feat in weaving fact and fiction in Ain't Goin' to Glory, his novel about the Civil War draft riots in New York, again shows his talent for basing an intriguing novel on an actual historical event. Mingling true-life characters with equally convincing people of his own creation, he gives readers the full effect of this sizzling nineteenth-century scandal (including actual excerpts from the trial) and augments it with a charming love story. His fictional hero, a reporter on Horace Greeley's Tribune, is himself irresistibly drawn to a young friend of Catherine's, an artist and "advanced" woman in her own right, and must come to terms with an emerging conception of women that clashes with values he had taken for granted all his life. As added spice, the author takes us backstage at the classic theatre of the time, when passions ran high on both sides of the curtain.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Bluestocking: The Story of the Famous Forrest Divorce Case. To get started finding The Bluestocking: The Story of the Famous Forrest Divorce Case, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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