The biography of Cora Crane, wife of author Stephen Crane and who, in the space of less than 10 years:
-- Left her wealthy, educated Boston family and lived on her own in NYC (this in the early 1890s, when other women her age were having their first child)
-- Married and divorced a dry goods salesnam in less than a year
-- Married into the lesser British aristocracy (a baronette) and left (but did not divorce) him after a year
-- Moved to Florida and opend a high class bordello catering to the local power brokers
...where she met and fell in love with Stephne Crane, still riding the fame of The Red Badge . . . and running guns into Cuba
-- Followed him to Europe and into war in Greece as a correspondent
-- Lived with him in England in a 15th century mansion, complete with ghost and secret passages, a stone's throw from her never-divorced husband family's mansion
-- Hobnobbed with: HG Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Lady Churchill
-- Returned to Florida after Stephen died and opend a new brothel
-- Made her one tragic mistake: married a drunk who, among other things, shot and killed her alleged young lover
Where are the Masterpiece Theatre script writters for this one? Emma Thompson and Johnny Depp . . .
