The most beautiful man in existence : the scandalous life of Alexander Lesassier /
1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was de...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: A Journal of Life; 1 Interest or Love; 2 Born to Misfortune; 3 Hot from Your Studies; 4 This Despicable Rock; 5 The Most Beautiful Man in Existence; 6 Tinsel of Military Reputation; 7 Soothing Hope of Speedy Promotion; 8 Arrived at Wealth and Dignity; 9 Thrown on the Wide World; 10 Appearances Are of Essential Consequence; 11 Consecutive Chain of Corroborative Evidence; 12 Compare What I Might Have Been with What I Am; Epilogue: One Series of Hardships and Privations; A Note on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B.
- Cd; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; v; w.
