Record #:

43230

Author(s):

Roberson, Elizabeth

Abstract:

Eliza Bowen, more famously known as Madam Jumel, died at the age of 92 in New York City on July 16, 1865. The illegitimate child of a prostitute, carried on a series of relationships with cultured men before maneuvering a lucrative marriage to wealthy New York Wine merchant Stephen Jumel and in later years becoming the wife of Aaron Burr. For a short time in the 1790s, she lived with her mother and stepfather in a rented house in the town Williamston, N.C. She is thought to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens's Mrs. Haversham in the novel, "Great Expectations".

Source:

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Winter 2012, p52-56

Subject(s):

Madam Jumel (1775-1865); Williamston--History; Williamston--Madame Jumel; Burr, Aaron