Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5.   1. Gold to Be Made
  6.   2. A Bright and Brainy Woman
  7.   3. A Bastard Catch’d
  8.   4. The Left-Hand Road
  9.   5. The Wanton Widow
  10.   6. Not So Easily Handled
  11.   7. What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?
  12.   8. For the Likes of Me
  13.   9. The Needle, the School Room, and the Store
  14. 10. A House of Mercy
  15. 11. A Good Woman
  16. 12. Miss Pollard’s Ruin in Lexington
  17. 13. Somebody’s Daughter
  18. 14. A Man of Passion
  19. 15. Hindered, Not Ruined
  20. 16. The Front Parlor and the Back Gate
  21. 17. The Cavalier and the Puritans
  22. 18. Refusing to Behave
  23. 19. Redemption
  24. Photographs
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Index
  29. Also by Patricia Miller
  30. A Note About the Author
  31. Copyright