William Breckinridge Breach of Promise Trial: 1894
Suggestions For Further Reading
. "Sex, Scandal, and Suffrage in the Gilded Age." The Historian: A Journal of History 42, no.2 (February 1980): 225-43.
Lexington, Fayette. The Celebrated Case of Col. lV. C. P. Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard Chicago: Current Events Publishing, 1894.
Parker, Agnes. The Real Madeline Pollard: A Diary of Ten Weeks' Association with the Plaintiff in the Famous Breckinridge-Pollard Suit. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1894.
Ross, Shelley. Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal, and Corruption in American Politics from 1702to the Present. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Additional topics
Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1883 to 1917William Breckinridge Breach of Promise Trial: 1894 - A Relationship Blossoms, A Promise Broken, A Trial Watched By The Nation, Defense Portrays Pollard As A Harlot