The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier

by Lisa Rosner

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1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was deposited in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Alexander Lesassier died in 1839 during the First Afghan War; his trunk and its contents...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812234863

ISBN13:9780812234862

Release Date:June 1999

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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