Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman--and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-century America
- ISBN-10
- 068483474X
- ISBN-13
- 9780684834740
- Category
- Infanticide
- Pages
- 329
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Alan Pell Crawford
Description
The author revists the eighteenth-century "Jezebel of Virginia" case to recreate one of the most sensational trials in American history in which Nancy Randolph, a young woman from one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families in Virginia, played a key role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused of fathering and killing an illegitimate child. 20,000 first printing.
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