Urquiza's Argentine backs Lopez's Paraguay

[Grey Wolf]

Yes, he did well, managing to keep up the pressure despite the logistical problems.

I don't know about this book. Is it about Lynch's entire life, or just an specific part of it?

"The Shadows of Elisa Lynch - How a nineteenth-century Irish courtesan became the most powerful woman in Paraguay"

by Sian Rees
published 2003/2004 by Review (Headline)

It does cover her early and later life, but the sources are much less for these, so the bulk of the book is about her relationship with Lopez, and thus with Paraguay.

Grey Wolf

 

[David S Poepoe]

"The Shadows of Elisa Lynch - How a nineteenth-century Irish courtesan became the most powerful woman in Paraguay"

by Sian Rees
published 2003/2004 by Review (Headline)

It does cover her early and later life, but the sources are much less for these, so the bulk of the book is about her relationship with Lopez, and thus with Paraguay.

Grey Wolf

Very interestingly, I searched for UCLA's copy of the title and discovered that another book on Elisa Lynch was published that same year - 2003.

The Empress of South America by Nigel Cawthorne
William Heinemann, London

What does come to mind is the adventures, probably more false than true, of Anna Leonowans in the court of Mongkrut of Siam. The parallels are not there but the similarities of a white woman securing an influencial position in a 'non-white' court is interesting.