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Alias Agnes
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- Book Synopsis
- Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Madeleine Pollard was a Kentuckian with humble roots who had used charisma to work her way into the parlors of the Washington, DC, elite. Tucker hid behind an alias-Agnes Parker-but Pollard had a secret, too._x000D_ Alias Agnes details the story of Jane Tucker, who took a job as an undercover detective with a ten-week mission. Her target: Madeleine Pollard, former mistress of Congressman William C. P. Breckinridge, whom she had sued for breach of promise when he failed to marry her. Exploring the intricacies of this trial and a scandal that captivated the nation, author Elizabeth A. DeWolfe demonstrates that a shared lack of power did not always lead to alliances among women. DeWolfe uncovers the strategies women used to make their way in the world, drawing parallels between the previously forgotten and incomplete tales of Tucker, Pollard, and the women who testified in the trial-from formerly enslaved persons, to white socialites, to single government clerks, to divorced physicians._x000D_ Written in engaging prose with all the intrigue and suspense of a detective tale, Alias Agnes chronicles the lives of women at the cusp of the twentieth century-the opportunities that beckoned them and the challenges that thwarted their dreams.
- About The Author
- Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, professor of history and cofounder of the women's and gender studies program at the University of New England, is the award-winning author of The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories and Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781985902237
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky, (29 April 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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