The Most Beautiful Man in Existence : : The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier / / Lisa Rosner.
1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was de...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: A Journal of Life
- CHAPTER 1. Interest or Love
- CHAPTER 2. Born to Misfortune
- CHAPTER 3. Hot from Your Studies
- CHAPTER 4. This Despicable Rock
- CHAPTER 5. The Most Beautiful Man in Existence
- CHAPTER 6. Tinsel of Military Reputation
- CHAPTER 7. Soothing Hope of Speedy Promotion
- CHAPTER 8. Arrived at Wealth and Dignity
- CHAPTER 9. Thrown on the Wide World
- CHAPTER 10. Appearances Are of Essential Consequence
- CHAPTER 11. Consecutive Chain of Corroborative Evidence
- CHAPTER 12. Compare What I Might Have Been with What I Am
- Epilogue: One Series of Hardships and Privations
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index