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Madame Jumel Collects

With Margaret A. Oppenheimer, the author of “The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic.”

This illustrated lecture features the amazing Eliza Jumel, who was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, confined to a workhouse while her mother was in jail, yet rose to become one of the richest women in New York.











When: Wed., Nov. 12, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With Margaret A. Oppenheimer, the author of “The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic.”

This illustrated lecture features the amazing Eliza Jumel, who was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, confined to a workhouse while her mother was in jail, yet rose to become one of the richest women in New York.

Buy tickets/get more info now