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Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) was a noted politician and financier in early nineteenth-century America

a number of which call to mind Edgar Allan Poe

Special Damage Helen Wong By merging of these andIn 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from "civilised" society when her neighbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumors and vindicate her name, Smith sued him for defamation. But in court, she faced the onerous burden, entrenched within English law of sexual slander, of proving "special damage." Smith should have lost her case, but her action set off a remarkable reform movement. In Special Damage, Jessica Lake