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Scandal at Bizarre
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20050701
Author:Hackett, Mary
Scandal at Bizarre, by Cynthia A. Kierner. Patgrave, December 2004. $26.95
When a lovely woman stoops to folly and fails to heed Oliver Goldsmith's suggestion to die, what does become of her? In one eighteenthcentury Virginia case, she goes on to marry a wealthy and prominent New Yorker and live reasonably happily ever after. In this history of an incident that took place not at Bizarre but at Glentivar in Cumberland County, Kierner examines one of Virginia's most shocking scandals, involving members of many of Virginia's prominent families, first and foremost the Randolphs, the multitudinous ...
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