{"product_id":"2940033160044","title":"Unwanted Wives","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlyle Harris and Robert Buchanan had several things in common. Both worked in the medical field, with Harris a medical student and Buchanan a practicing physician. Both lived in New York City in the early 1890s. And both had wives they didn't want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5,000 words\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Potts met Carlyle Harris in the summer of 1889 at a\u003cbr\u003ecotillion held at the Coleman House, Ocean Grove, NJ. She was eighteen, and at\u003cbr\u003etwenty-one, he'd completed his first year as a medical student at Columbia\u003cbr\u003eUniversity in Manhattan. She was a beautiful, dark-haired young lady with a\u003cbr\u003esvelte figure and soulful expression; he looked rather like a lightweight Teddy\u003cbr\u003eRoosevelt with slicked-back hair parted down the middle, pince nez, a mustache,\u003cbr\u003eand wide tie. They spent time together in the company of friends, appropriate\u003cbr\u003efor that Victorian era, and when they parted in the autumn, Harris returning to\u003cbr\u003eColumbia and Helen moving with her mother into a New York City flat, Mrs.\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Potts had no notion of ever meeting the young man again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut he came calling in New York and his increasingly marked\u003cbr\u003eattentions to Helen were not received kindly by her mother. Helen was too young\u003cbr\u003eto consider matrimony, Mrs. Potts insisted when her daughter mentioned an\u003cbr\u003eengagement. Instead, Mrs. Potts tried to put some distance between the two and\u003cbr\u003eamong other restrictions, she required they only see each other in company,\u003cbr\u003enever alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn February 7, 1890, Harris invited Helen to visit the New\u003cbr\u003eYork Stock Exchange with him, telling Mrs. Potts that McCready Harris, his\u003cbr\u003eyounger brother, would be coming along, too. Her conditions fulfilled, Mrs.\u003cbr\u003ePotts agreed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Harris lied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dingbat Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105499398384,"sku":"2940033160044","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940033160044_p0.jpg?v=1763658416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940033160044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}