The Scandalous Lives of Carolina Belles Marie Boozer and Amelia Feaster
The Scandalous Lives of Carolina Belles Marie Boozer and Amelia Feaster
by Tom Elmore
English | EPUB | 2.0 MB
by Tom Elmore
English | EPUB | 2.0 MB
In Civil War Columbia, South Carolina, no women were more gossiped aboutthan Amelia Feaster and her teenage daughter, Marie Boozer. ThePhiladelphia-born Feaster, a widow three times before her thirty-firstbirthday, aided the Union war effort from her home, while Marie became infamousfor her beauty and vanity. For over a century, scandalous tales of these womenhave been published across the nation, linking them to rich and powerful menboth at home and abroad. Historian Tom Elmore sorts through the many myths andlegends—involving such things as adultery, decapitation and the Russian tsar’sjewels—about Feaster and Boozer to present the first fact-based biography ofthese two nineteenth-century tabloid queens.