title: Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, From A to Z
author:  Michael Roberts 
description: <P>Michael Roberts is the fashion and style director of <i>Vanity Fair</i>. He served as fashion director at <i>The New Yorker</i> from 1997-2006 as well as the fashion editor of <i>The Sunday Times</i>, style director and art director of <i>Tatler</i>, design director of British <i>Vogue</i>, and Paris editor of <i>Vanity Fair</i>. He has contributed his photographs and illustrations to numerous publications, among them <i>Vanity Fair</i>; <i>L'Uomo Vogue</i>, British, Italian, French, American, Chinese, Brazilian, and Japanese <i>Vogue</i>; <i>The Sunday Times</i>; and <i>The Independent on Sunday</i>. He is also the author of four books of illustrations: <i>The Jungle ABC</i>, <i>Mumbo Jumbo</i>, <i>Snowman in Paradise</i>, and <i>The Snippy World of New Yorker Fashion Artist Michael Roberts</i>.
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  HELEN DICKSON
  
  Rogue’s
  
  Rogue’s
  
  Widow,
  
  Widow,
  
  Gentleman’s
  
  Gentleman’s
  
  Wife
  
  Wife
  
  TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON
  
  AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG
  
  STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID
  
  PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND
  
  Chapter One
  
  Charleston, South Carolina—1880
  
  A long column of sullen-looking convicts—black and white—moved slowly and
  painfully down the sun-baked street. Ragged and barefooted, they were fettered
  together like beasts of burden, their heavy iron ankle chains rubbing piti-
  lessly against their skin, tearing and making it bleed. The men guarding them
  walked alongside, thick canes in their hands, urging them along with curses
  and threats. Others rode in front and behind, the harnesses jingling on their
  horses.
  
  The traffic was heavy, the pavements swarming with people of all colours,
  passing through every shade of brown to black. Their clothes were gaily
  coloured, and the soft blur of the southern speech fell