![]() ![]() Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand-and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man-and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality-to trial. In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. Bringing Down the Colonel E-Kitap Açıklaması ![]()
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