Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

by Jennifer Wright

The decades to come would see some of the city’s most memorable fetes. One gala, hosted by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the wife of a railroad tycoon, was given in honor of Prince del Drago of Corsica—who turned out to be a monkey.