Molly Brown--#3 finished

This is the Titanic famous Molly Brown, even though she was probably never called Molly until after her death--Margaret or maybe Maggie.  The rest of the title: Unraveling the Myth.  This is really an amazing book, the amount of research that it had to take to get the details of Margaret Brown's life is astounding.  Really amazing what she is most famous for her actions on the Titanic but really more the myth of her actions then are just a small, small part to the person she was.  Growing up in Hannibal, MO and moving to Colorado at first Leadville and then once her husband strikes riches to Denver.  Probably because she grew up poor to middle class--however that define in the late 1800s, she did not forget about the poor and working class people.  She helped the miners in CO both the mines she was part owner of as well as union miners fighting for better everything later.  She helped the Catholic church with fundraising, she helped orphans and was eventually a big time supporter of women's suffrage.  She also was as a woman an individual that had to deal with separation from her husband--he had become a different person in mind after a stroke but she would not divorce him.  As a woman at that time she traveled alone or in a group all around the world, she took her children to Europe and put them in boarding schools there or on east coast.  She lived as part of the moneyed Gilded Age in Newport, RI with the other famous families of that time.  A really remarkable person for the time.

My copy of this book is water damaged and has stains on pages, just a bad copy.  I cannot put on PBS but might be a keeper at least for now.  It also has small font which made reading this that much tougher especially at times it seems the stories repeated themselves so it was a long read but info was very interesting.