The unstoppable Eliza Haycraft : a novel / Diana Dempsey.
Publication details: [United States] : Bramerton Press, 2023.Edition: 1st edDescription: 501 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780990696483 (hardcover)
- Haycraft, Eliza -- Fiction
- Prostitutes -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Fiction
- Businesswomen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Fiction
- Women -- Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
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"Along the Missouri River, 1844...Eliza Haycraft flings herself into a canoe to escape a husband who beats her and a life that does the same. She is penniless and illiterate. Yet a decade later, sex and secrets will make her the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, a frontier boom town at the western edge of a restless nation. In exotic New Orleans and then in St. Louis, with only herself to rely on, Eliza becomes a prostitute and madam, then a property owner and puller of strings. She tangles with a vindictive rival and a governor who will become a Civil War turncoat...And when civil war looms, Eliza faces a devastating choice: whether to risk her own life for the survival of everything--and everyone--she holds dear"--P. [2] of jacket.
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