Ebook: John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

Introduction -- Sins of the father -- I've broken my promise -- Old sins cast long shadows -- They idolized him -- Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell -- This Harpers Ferry business -- The star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western -- I cannot stoop to that which I despise -- Almost an eunuch -- Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster -- The Southern Marseillaise -- All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving -- My goose hangs high -- True grit -- Effie and Alice -- Imagine my helping that wounded soldier -- The most beautiful woman on the American stage -- Storming about the country is sad work -- Not a secesh -- Isabel Sumner -- A gang of misfits -- Lucy Lambert Hale -- Anything that pleases you: Ella Starr -- Assassination -- I have too great a soul to die like a criminal -- Ella Starr -- Asia and Mary Ann -- "It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale -- Effie Germon -- Alice Gray -- Helen Western -- Fanny Brown -- Henrietta Irving -- Maggie Mitchell -- Ada Gray -- Isabel Sumner -- Louise Wooster -- Clara Morris -- Martha Mills -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.;"When John Wilkes Booth died -- shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln -- all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg." -- Amazon.com.