C.W. Gortner | The American Adventuress

The American Adventuress

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Daughter of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was born into wealth—and scandal. Upon her parents’ separation, her mother took Jennie and her sisters to Paris, where Mrs. Jerome was determined to marry her daughters into the most elite families. The glamorous city became their tumultuous finishing school until it fell to revolt.

Fleeing to Queen Victoria’s England, Jennie soon caught the eye of aristocrat Randolph Spencer-Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s loftiest peers. It was love at first sight, their unconventional marriage driven by mutual ambition and the birth of two sons. Undeterred by premature widowhood or society’s rigid expectations, Jennie brashly carried on a lifelong intimate friendship with Edward, Prince of Wales—a notorious bon vivant—and had two later marriages to younger men. When her son Winston launched his brilliant political career, Jennie guided him to success, his most vocal and valuable supporter.

By turns scandalous, tragic, and exciting, Jennie Jerome lived an unconventional life full of defiance—one that enshrined her as an American adventuress.

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Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

ISBN: ‎978-0063035805

ASIN: B09CQ2HZW7

Word Count: 112800 words

Length: 376 pages

Language: English

Release Date: September 20, 2022

Available as: Ebook,Paperback

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Jennie Jerome challenged and redefined being a woman during the 20th century. Winston Spencer Churchill was an indomitable spirit inherited from his indomitable American, New York mother is all over this book. Jennie Jerome died as she lived, a true force of nature.

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