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Buy This Book in Print. summary. Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her notorious behavior, dashing husband, and associations with ...
10 de oct. de 2019 · Elizabeth Spear Patterson was born on 6 February 1785 as the daughter of Dorcas Spear and William Patterson. Her parents’ marriage was unhappy, and even as her mother lay dying in 1814, her father brought his mistress to the house. Elizabeth was joined in the nursery by William, Robert, John, Joseph, Edward, Margaret, George, Caroline and Henry.
16 de may. de 2008 · A Woman Scorned - Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. May 16, 2008. 'Nature never intended me for obscurity,' Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte to her father in 1815. Although little known today outside her native Baltimore or to Napoleon scholars, Elizabeth Bonaparte Patterson was a well-known beauty in her day. Her marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
1 de ene. de 2014 · Born in 1785, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte lived a life more typical of women one hundred years later. Though her father’s self-made American wealth could have supported her, a life-long feud with her father over her short, youthful marriage to Jerome Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother,) an unrelenting desire to live in Europe, and the determination to live a dignified and independent life ...
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, who would be called “ Madame Bonaparte ” until her death in 1879, despised the narrowness of her own country and rejoiced in living in Europe, where “ the purposes of life are all fulfilled. … Beauty commands homage, talents secure admiration, misfortune meets with respect.
Elizabeth kept meticulous records throughout her life, and it was through the examination and transcription of these journals in the Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Papers, Ms 142, Box 13A that I came to know more about her. At first, I only paid attention to the entries which were related to clothing.
From the publishers: From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers […] and Civil War Wives […], here is 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 …
