The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen
Ryan, Jane Van
Knoxville, Tennessee, socialite Evelyn Hazen did something brazen, nearly impossible. In an act that defied social conventions in the 1930s, she sued her former lover for seduction and breach of promise to marry and won. When Hazen was a fourteen-year-old, raven-haired beauty, she entered the University of Tennessee in 1914. Naive and impressionable, she fell in love with Ralph Scharringhaus, the son of a prosperous businessman. By 1917, they ...