Bigamy, Bankruptcy, War and Divorce: The Tangled Life of a Toddington Landlady

by Richard Hart, Paul Brown

Overview

A bundle of passionate but unclaimed love letters written a century ago and found in a London bank vault have led to the uncovering of an extraordinary story. Research has revealed the adventures of a spirited young woman who by the standards of the time, or perhaps any time, behaved scandalously. Yet she managed to avoid disgrace, get her man, and go on to lead a respectable life.At first sight Ellen Nelsen’s behaviour appears shocking. Among other misdeeds she appears to have been bigamously married twice. Given her circumstances, however, her survival is a triumph of fortitude over betrayal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750991452
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	06/24/2019
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Richard Hart is a historian who has written and produced a number of books on the history of Toddington, his home village, and Leighton Buzzard where he now lives. Paul Brown has written 12 books (three of which have been published by The History Press), plus thousands of newspaper and magazine articles for The Guardian and other publications, He has also written scripts for television and is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He also lives in Leighton Buzzard.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction 9

1 A Guttering Wedding 13

2 Bankruptcy and Abandonment 20

3 Helen Marries Again 25

4 The Toddington Landlady 30

5 War Changes Everything 37

6 Happily Married at Last 55

7 The Love Letters 66

Index 203