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“Sallie Ward was a charmer. Her beauty inspired poems and duels. Born to wealth in 1827, she used it to advantage, ordering expensive clothes from abroad, setting new standards in fashion and, to the outrage of many, wearing rouge. Her storied marital career fascinated the nation as she went through four husbands, only the last outliving her. Her fortune destroyed by the Civil War, like Scarlett O’Hara, she recouped it by marriage, determined never to go hungry again. Newspaper readers and acquaintances alike found her endlessly fascinating, not least because she was strangely able to retain her beauty, or the illusion of it, to the end, which came in 1896. In his forthcoming book, Forever Belle: Sallie Ward of Kentucky, Runyon reveals some engrossing but hitherto unknown details of her life.”
-Kentucky Humanities Speakers
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