True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness
by
Jure Fiorillo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For much of history and across most of the world, being born out of wedlock—a love child, a bastard—was a serious impediment to success. Illegitimate offspring were subject to neglect, abandonment, disinheritance, and social exclusion, and often found the usual routes to education, wealth, and...