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22 de may. de 2012 · Appraising Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's many identities—celebrity, aristocrat, independent woman, mother—Charlene M. Boyer Lewis is able to show how Madame Bonaparte, as she was known, exercised extraordinary social power at the center of the changing transatlantic world.
11 de feb. de 2014 · Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), 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 political histories of the United States, France, and England.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was utterly extraordinary, and the people around her knew it. Although she came of age in a republic that lauded [End Page 373] dutiful daughters and virtuous wives, she transcended the constraints of conventional domesticity by defying her father to marry Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's dashing and somewhat unruly youngest brother.
Elizabeth Patterson " Betsy " Bonaparte ( 6 de fevereiro de 1785 – 4 de abril de 1879) foi uma socialite estadunidense. Filha de um comerciante de Baltimore, foi a primeira mulher de Jerônimo Bonaparte, irmão mais jovem de Napoleão Bonaparte . Sepultada no Green Mount Cemetery . Sepultura de Elizabeth Bonaparte.
JEROME BONAPARTE AND ELIZABETH PATTERSON. The Nineteenth Century and After for November contains a very brightly written article by Mrs. Stirling on Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore who, in 1803, married Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879) is the kind of juicy historical character biographers long to discover and readers delight to encounter. For scholars, she is well sourced, with ample documentation to, from, and about her. For readers, the rich, beautiful, elite, spirited Elizabeth seems almost more historical fiction than fact.
From the publishers: Alexandra Deutsch literally “unpacks” Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity.
