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Eliza Jumel ( née Bowen; April 2, 1775 – July 16, 1865), also known as Eliza Burr, was a wealthy American socialite. She was married to Aaron Burr and their divorce was finalized on the day of his death.
The Life of Eliza Jumel. Eliza Jumel was born Eliza “Betsey” Bowen in a Providence, Rhode Island brothel, to Phebe Kelley Bowen on April 7, 1775. Her mother’s madam was a free Black woman, and Eliza grew up “in the life.”
Vor 6 Tagen · The life of Eliza Jumel is a tale about a woman who came to New York to make good on the American Dream. Margaret Oppenheimer’s splendid book, The Remarkable Rise...
"Eliza Jumel was one of the great horizontals of American history."
Margaret A. Oppenheimer, The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic. Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 2016, 358 pages. “In Eliza’s worldview, what you had done in the past mattered little; what mattered was what you could persuade people to believe” (129). As told
1. Nov. 2015 · With this book, author Margaret A. Oppenheimer draws from archival documents and court filings, many untouched since the 1800s, to tell the true and full story of Eliza Jumel.
1. Nov. 2015 · Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Seizing opportunities and readjusting facts to achieve the security and status she so desperately craved, she obtained a fortune from her ...
