Notorious Woman
The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Published on 30. November 2001
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-8071-2698-1 (ISBN)
Description
Notorious Woman brings us the complex story of the legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines. When Gaines discovered she had been reared not by her biological parents, but instead by friends of Daniel Clark- her true father and one of the richest men in America- she returned to New Orleans where her deceased father's fortune remained. Gaines struggled to lay claim to her inheritance in a case that wound its torturous path through the United States legal system from 1834 until 1891. Though Gaines never recovered more than a tiny fraction of the rumored millions, Elizabeth Alexander asserts that Gaines helped instigate a new type of family law that provided special protection of women, children, and marriages.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Illustrations
8 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2698-1 (9780807126981)
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10/2001
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
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Person
Elizabeth Urban Alexander is a visiting assistant professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, TX. She is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. She lives in Cleburne, Texas.