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Diamonds and Deadlines

A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

Betsy Prioleau

2022

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Book Excerpt

The Tumultuous Marriage of the American “Empress of Journalism” and Oscar Wilde’s Feckless Brother

On the unblissful union between Miriam Leslie and Willie Wilde.

by Betsy Prioleau via Literary Hub on March 29, 2022
Book Review

‘Mrs. Frank Leslie’ Ran a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Suffragist Movement

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis
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on March 28, 2022

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