About Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was the daughter of a Baltimore, Maryland merchant, and was the first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, and sister-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I of France.
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson
The tongue and pen are great outlets for wrath and resentment. (1849)
