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Madame Jumel - Influential Women in History
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This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Madame Jumel, born Eliza Bowen in 1775, the daughter of a Rhode Island prostitute. Upon her marriage to a rich French wine merchant she acquired a life of luxury that was beset by scandal.
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Madame Jumel - Influential Women in History - Anon Anon
MADAME JUMEL
NEW YORK’S FIRST OFFICIAL HEART BREAKER
FAR to the north, on New York City’s westerly side—on One Hundred and Sixtieth Street, near St. Nicholas Avenue—stands almost the sole American memorial to a super-woman. It takes the shape of a colonial dwelling, two and a half stories high, white, crowned by a railed gazebo, and with rear extensions and columns and. the rest of the architectural fantasies wherein our new-world ancestors rejoiced.
It is called the Jumel mansion, after Madame Jumel, although it originally belonged to Mary Morris, an earlier and more beautiful man-slayer, at whose dainty feet George Washington, with solemn, but futile, protestations, deposited his heart; and although the woman whose name it bears ended her days there, not as Madame Jumel, but as Mrs. Burr.
The house once stood far in the silent country. But the thin, throbbing island’s life crawled northward inch by inch, until to-day the mansion crouches, miscast and bewildered, amid a forest of new and top-heavy flat houses—happy hunting ground for none-too-rich homeseekers—and is shaken by the jar of L
and New York Central trains.
Poor old house! Bewigged and small-clothed Great-gran ther Peregrine, from Pompton, caught in the screaming eddy of a subway rush-hour crowd at the Grand Central!
So much for rhapsody. The Jumel place is worth it. For there ghosts walk—the stately, lavender-scented old villains and villainettes who made up New York’s smart set a century and a quarter ago, when flats were called rookeries
and polite folk would scarce mention such things.
In those days, when any theme was too darkly disreputable or indelicate for discussion—and a few things still were, in that ante-white-slave era—people were prone to refer to such doubtful topics as shrouded in mystery,
and to let it go at that. There was more than one event in the cradle-to-grave career of Madame
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