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Defiant brides : the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married /
"When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and th...
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Beacon Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Defiant brides : "The handsomest woman in America" ; "The best and tenderest of friends" ; "The delight, and comfort of her adoring general" ; "Our sweetest hopes embittered by disappointment" ; "Fortitude under stress"
- pt. II. Tender wives : "As good and innocent as an angel" ; "A momentary pang" ; "Haste happy time when we shall be no more separate" ; "Yet we wade on" ; "My regret at this cruel, dreadful separation"
- pt. III. Shadow sisters : "Illusive bubbles" ; "An irrestible but invisible force" ; "I do not suffer my spirits to overcome me" ; The brides' legacies.