Daughter of Fortune: The Bettie Brown Story (Women of the West Series)

Her name was Rebecca Aston Brown, but the world knew her as Miss Bettie. Artist, world traveler, and for the times most shocking of all, a spinster to the end of her days, Bettie's life has been the subject of conjecture and rumor. Chronicles the life of prominent nineteenth-century Galveston, Texas socialite, Rebecca Ashton Brown, how she cared for the homeless after the Great Storm of 1900, raised money for children's charities, and served on the board of the Letitia Rosenberg Women's Home The real story of a woman who epitomized America's Golden Age and represented the changing face of the Victorian woman at the turn of the century.