Description:
No place, no publisher, no date (circa 1927). Quarto (11.75" x 9"), 16 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps, page one featuring a manipulated image from a photograph depicting the happy couple with goose. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 1/19/2024.Folded once horizontally, browned, brittle, edge wear including short tears without loss, otherwise good or better.
Peaches Browning, nee Frances Belle Heenan, met real estate developer Edward West Browning when she was 15 & he was 51. With the permission of both her parents, the pair married on her 16th birthday. Just six months later, Peaches left the marital home & pursued a divorce which at the time was granted only for adultery. Alternatively, she sought legal separation & cited cruelty on the part of her husband as the cause. "Daddy" Browning responded with a counter-claim of abandonment. Peaches provided titillating details & seemed particularly disturbed that her husband kept a honking African goose in their bedroom. Ultimately, the… Read More
