Patent Office, U.S.
paternity
Paxton, John
Pearl
Penman’s Art Journal
Penny, Virginia
Perry, Kate
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia Times
Philanthropist
phrenology
physicians
Pierce, Sally
Philadelphia Social Purity Alliance
Pinkerton, Robert
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Plymouth Colony
Pollard, Earnest
Pollard, Edward
Pollard, Horatio
Pollard, John Dudley (brother of Madeline)
Pollard, John Dudley “J.D.” (father of Madeline); death of
Pollard, Josephine
Pollard, Madeline: acting plans of; allegations about past of; Bayards and; birth and age of; Breckinridge requested for advice about Rhodes; Breckinridge’s carriage ride with; Breckinridge’s engagement to; Breckinridge’s love letters to; Breckinridge’s meeting of; Breckinridge’s relationship with; Breckinridge’s settlement offer refused by; Breckinridge’s support of; Breckinridge sued by, see Pollard-Breckinridge breach of promise suit; calling cards of; children of; clothing of; Dahlgren and; death of; early life of; famous men contacted by; at The Farm; father’s death and; finances of; government job of; Gratz and; Hassard and; at Holy Cross; at House of Mercy; Issa’s sewing basket and; Julia Blackburn and; letter of, inviting Breckinridge to Wesleyan; letters sent to Breckinridge about; name of; New York World autobiographical piece by; New York World letter to supporters by; photos of; post-trial life of; pregnancies of; Rhodes and; at Sayre Institute; schooling of; Sherman remark of; testimony of; travels of; Tucker and; Washington society and; at Wesleyan; writing ambitions of
Pollard, Mary “Mamie,” see Struve, Mary “Mamie” Pollard
Pollard, Mattie
Pollard, Nancy; J.D.’s death and
Pollard, Rosalie
Pollard-Breckinridge breach of promise suit; Blackburn and; Breckinridge’s finances and; filing of; financing of; Pollard’s World autobiography and; purpose of; timing of; trial in, see Pollard v. Breckinridge
Pollard v. Breckinridge; Blackburn’s testimony in; books about; Breckinridge’s defense and testimony in; Breckinridge’s plan for appeal of; burden of proof in; Carlisle and; closing arguments in; closing of case; damages awarded in; depositions in; jury in; jury instructions in; Mollie Desha’s testimony in; morality and; Pollard’s testimony in; public sentiment for Pollard and against Breckinridge; spectators at; verdict in; women’s rights and
Porter, Clifford
Potter, Henry
Potter, Virginia
poverty
Powell, Aaron Macy
pregnancy, out-of-wedlock; abandonment of infants following; abandonment of women following; abortion and; homes for fallen women and; infanticide following; and man’s responsibility for children; paternity and; rape and
pregnancy and childbearing; birth control and; and education for women as harmful to reproduction; frailty and; procreation-only intercourse
presidential elections: of 1884; of 1892; of 1896
Preston, Francis
Preston family
Prichard, Edward
progressive era
Pro Re Nata
prostitution
Protestants; Puritans
Providence Insane Asylum
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pullman railroad strike
Puritans
railroads
Randall’s Island
rape: of Halpin by Cleveland; legal definition of; myths about; pregnancy and
Red Cross
red-light districts
Reed, Thomas
Reedy, William Marion
religion: Breckinridge and; marriage and; revivals
Repplier, Agnes
Republicans, Republican Party; Cleveland-Halpin scandal and
Rest Cure
Revolutionary War
Rhodes, James; Pollard’s request to Breckinridge for advice about
R. H. Stearns and Company
Richardson, Ellen
Richardson, Heather
Richardson, Samuel
Ring, William
Robertson, James
Robinson, Owen
Rock Creek Cemetery
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rose, Mrs.
Rossell, Rankin
ruined (fallen) women
Russell, Mary
St. Ann’s Infant Asylum
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
sales clerks
Salvation Army
San Francisco Morning Call, The
Sanger, Margaret
Sares, C. E.
Sawyer, Charles
Sayre Institute
Sayres, Edward
Schafer, Helen
School of Social Service Administration
Scott, Preston
Scott, Winfield
Scottish Highlands
Seacord, Harriet
Seacord, James
seamstresses
Second Great Awakening
seduction
seduction novels
servants
Settle, Evan
settlement houses
sewing; as job
sex; age of consent for; Breckinridge’s speeches on sexual morality; bundling and; double standard and; “fallen” women and; harassment and; open discussions about; predation; for procreation only; prostitution; rape, see rape; seduction; sexual desire; sexual revolutions; slaves and; social purity and; trials for sexual offenses; virginity and; white male privilege and; see also marriage; morality; pregnancy, out-of-wedlock; pregnancy and childbearing
Sex and Education (Clarke)
Shafer, Helen
Shaw, Anna
Shaw, Marian
Shelby, John
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Silver Act
Shindlebower, Mollie
Sickles, Daniel
Sidney, Algernon
Silent Jury
silver
Sinclair, Dr.
Singleton, Lena
slaves, slavery; Breckinridge family and; in Kentucky; proposal to send freed slaves to Africa; sex and
Smith, Daniel Scott
Smith, Ella
Smithsonian Institution
social justice
social politics
social welfare programs
social work
Sons of the American Revolution
South; women in
Stanbery, William
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stead, William
Stealey, O. O.
Stearns and Company
Stevenson, Adlai, I
Stewart’s
Stiles, Henry Reed
stock market
Stoll, Charles; Breckinridge’s reelection campaign and; depositions and; and investigation of Pollard; trial and; Tucker’s secretarial work for
Storer, Horatio
Stout, Mary
Street, Mary
streetcars
Struve, Felix
Struve, Mary “Mamie” Pollard
suffrage movement
Supreme Court, District of Columbia
Supreme Court, U.S.
Surratt, John
Sutton, John
Swope, Armstead M.
Swope, William
Swope-Goodloe duel
Talbot, Marion
Talbott, Simeon
Tammany Hall
tariffs
teachers
Thomas, Omar
Thompson, Phil
Thorne, Margaret
Thorne, Samuel
Tiffany, Charles
Tinsley, Owen
Tinsley, Squire
Tjader, Margaret Thorne
Totten, Enoch
Townsend, George Alfred (Gath)
Treasury Department
Trusler, Mrs. Nelson
Tucker, Jane (niece of Jennie)
Tucker, Jane “Jennie”; book written by; childhood of; diving of; at House of Mercy; Louise Breckinridge and; Nisba Breckinridge and; office work of; Pollard and; schooling of; secretarial job with Stoll; World’s Fair attended by
Tucker, Mary Geraldine Armstrong
Tucker, Maude
Tucker, Patty
Tucker, Richard
Tucker family; Castle Tucker home of
Turner, Frederick
Twain, Mark
Twining, Kinsley
typhus
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
University of Chicago
University of Kentucky
University of Michigan
Vaughn, Hester
virginity
voting; women’s suffrage movement
W. A. Boland Company
Walworth, Ellen Hardin
Wales
Warner, Charles Dudley
Washington, D.C.; demimonde in; professional women in; sex in; society in; wealthy in
Washington, Eugenia
Washington, George
Washington City Orphan Asylum
Washington Episcopal Diocese
Washington Evening Star
Washington High School
Washington Post, The
Washington Winter, A (Dahlgren)
Watterson, Henry
Watts, Robert
Waugh, Dan
Waugh, Mrs. Dan
welfare
Wellesley College
Wells, Robert
Wesleyan Female College
West End Street Railway
“What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?” (Livermore)
Whig Party
White, Nannie
White, Nettie
White Cross Army
White Cross program
white slavery
Whitney, M. A.
Wiebe, Robert
Wightman, Maria
Wightman v. Coates
Willard, Frances
Willard Hotel
Williams, Hal
Wilson, Jere; basket of flowers given to
Wimodaughsis
Wing, Edward Rumsey
Winslow, Caroline Brown
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Woman’s National Press Association
Woman’s Protective League
Woman’s Tribune
women: African American; and education as harmful to reproduction; “fallen”; family claim and; “good” and “bad,” distinguishing between; marriage and, see marriage; in politics; Rest Cure for; seminaries and colleges for; sex and, see sex; in South; “superfluous”; unmarried; work and, see working women
Women’s Auxiliary of the Confederate Veterans’ Association
Women’s Auxiliary of the Ex-Confederate Aid Society
Women’s Education and Industrial Union
Women’s Journal
women’s organizations
Women’s Rescue League
women’s rights; Pollard verdict and; suffrage
Women’s Trade Union League
Wood, Sharon
Wood, William
Woodward, C. Vann
Working Girls Society
working women; child care for; factory workers; fallen women and; family claim and; government clerks; and interaction with men; lawyers; Nisba Breckinridge’s work and; office workers; physicians; sales clerks; seamstresses; servants; sexual harassment and; teachers; in Washington, D.C.
World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair)
Worthington, William
Yancey, Mary
Yankee
yellow fever
Young family
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
Zane, Emily
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia Miller is an award-winning author and journalist whose fascination with the untold stories of women led her on a ten-year journey to unearth the history of the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal. Her work on the interplay of politics and sexual morality has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, The Huffington Post, and Ms. magazine. She received a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and dog. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
1. Gold to Be Made
2. A Bright and Brainy Woman
3. A Bastard Catch’d
4. The Left-Hand Road
5. The Wanton Widow
6. Not So Easily Handled
7. What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?
8. For the Likes of Me
9. The Needle, the School Room, and the Store
10. A House of Mercy
11. A Good Woman
12. Miss Pollard’s Ruin in Lexington
13. Somebody’s Daughter
14. A Man of Passion
15. Hindered, Not Ruined
16. The Front Parlor and the Back Gate
17. The Cavalier and the Puritans
18. Refusing to Behave
19. Redemption
Photographs
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Patricia Miller
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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