![]() ![]() Miller tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back- and became an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. ![]() 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. Pollard sued Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand- then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. Madeline Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era". "The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckinridge for breach of promise. ![]()
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