Coghlan, Margaret:

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MEMOIRS OF MRS. COGHLAN, (DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MAJOR MONCRIEFFE,) WRITTEN BY HERSELF...INTERSPERSED WITH ANECDOTES OF THE LATE AMERICAN AND PRESENT FRENCH WAR; WITH REMARKS, MORAL AND ... The first American edition, with the preface which was suppressed in many copies. The author was noted for her affair with Aaron Burr during the American Revolution, and thereafter spent a good deal of time in New York and Europe. Margaret's marriage to John Coghlan (a British officer) was an unhappy one, and she claims that the marriage ruined her life. The couple soon separated. Her misery led her into a host of financial, legal, and social problems, to the point where she faked her own death in 1787. She did not evade her responsibilities for long, however, and ended her life in debtors' prison some time after 1805.

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