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Wondrous beauty the life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

The remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United Stat...

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Main Author: Berkin, Carol (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, > 1785-1879.
Jérôme Bonaparte, > King of Westphalia, > 1784-1860.
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Family.
Women > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) > Biography.
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Summary:The remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England.
Physical Description:xiii, 237 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224) and index.
ISBN:0307592782 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780307592781 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0307476251 (pbk.)
9780307476258 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Carol Berkin received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History. Berkin is the author of Civil War Wives, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence , A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution , Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist , and First Generations: Women in Colonial America, and numerous articles and reviews. She lives in New York City and Guilford, Connecticut.

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