Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we’ve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard.
Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. 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. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand-and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the 'Powerless' Woman Who Took On Washington at.
After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man-and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality-to trial. In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader.
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