The remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel
Businesswomen, biography
Politicians' spouses
French Americans
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Socialites
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
New york (n.y.), biography
Businesswomen
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Women, united states, biography
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Biography
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"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York man…
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