Notorious Woman - The Celebrated Case Of Myra Clark Gaines

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Urban Alexander is visiting assistant professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Texas Wesleyan University. Klappentext 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 tap voluminous court records and letters in her gripping account of the longest continuous litigation in U.S. history, a case considered seventeen times by the Supreme Court.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Urban Alexander
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2004
• EAN: 9780807130247
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3024-7
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Southern Biography (Paperback); Southern Biography (Paperback); Southern Biography
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law