<p>A true southern tale of racism, murder, and taboo sex.</p>

Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder And Madness In The Heart Of Georgia

History

Hutto, Richard Jay

Americas

LYONS PRESS+

<p>Author Richard Jay Hutto has painted a fascinating picture of money, beauty, power and palaces - a lifestyle not entirely ended as illustrated, and methodically recounted in this boo of over one hundred marriages of American women to princes and dukes.</p>

Crowning Glory: American Wives of Princes And Dukes

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Henchard Press, Ltd.

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a princess in her own right after his death. An active philanthropist to Protestant causes, she then married Count Alfred von Waldersee whose close ties to the Prussian court made her an intimate friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a mentor and valued friend to his young wife. Although she preferred to remain in the background, Mary's influence caused intense jealousy by those at court who resented her friendship with the kaiser and kaiserin. This biography chronicles the remarkable life of an American woman whose wealth and influence enabled her to rise to power in the Prussian royal court.

The Kaiser's Confidante: Mary Lee, the First American-Born Princess

Community & Culture

McFarland Company

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison--in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband. Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.

A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England

World

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