Molly Brown Research Paper

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Molly Brown's life was documented by many different people. Some sources say that she was an overbearing young woman, and others say that she was very perceptive. The various sources share multiple facts about her life. Each one has its own different facts and perspectives. While historians agree that Molly Brown was a remarkable person, accounts of her life recall the same events with different facts and perspectives. The first example of inconsistency was her marriage and divorce, starting with “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown”. The biography states that Molly got married when she was 15 years old. “Three weeks after her arrival she met and married Johnny J. Brown” (Fowler, 31). In “The Golden Rube” it says, that Molly got married when she was 17 years …show more content…
got separated in 1909 because of their lack of agreement on everything. She and J.J. decided not to file for any kind of divorce considering their Catholic faith. The second example of inconsistency is the stove incident. The accounts of the stove incidents vary. In the “Unsinkable Mrs. Brown,” it says that there were 300,000 dollars placed inside the stove. The 300,000 burned up in flames. “She had hidden the money in the stove, and now her fortune had gone up the flue; three thousand dollars floating in the Leadville morning sky.” (Fowler 32). In “The Golden Rube” it also says that 300,000 dollars was placed in the stove but, it says the money did not burn up because it was in gold coins and gold coins can not burn. Only $75 went into flames during dinnertime. “The story circulated that she once secreted away $300,000 in the cookstove, only to have the cache go up in flames around dinnertime.” (Stephens 222). Lastly, in the “About Molly Brown” biography, it does not state anything about the stove incident as the other two sources do. The last example of inconsistency is the Titanic Incident. In “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown” Molly Brown advises the passengers of the Titanic to row once they are in the
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