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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Helen Jewett; Helen Jewett; Helen Jewett |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia Cline Cohen |
ISBN: | 0679740759 9780679740759 |
OCLC Number: | 181078679 |
Notes: | Originally published: new York: Knopf, 1998. |
Awards: | Short-listed for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 1999 |
Description: | 498 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Snow in April -- Sensational news -- A self-made woman -- New York's sex trade -- Acclaim for a woman of spunk -- The brothel business -- Epistolary enticement -- A servant girl in Maine -- Reading and imagination -- Tracing seduction -- Adolescent clerks -- Love letters and lies -- Blowing up -- Overconfident youth -- Trial in June -- The great unhung -- Texas. |
Responsibility: | Patricia Cline Cohen. |
Abstract:
Reconstructs the life of a servant girl from Maine who became a highly paid courtesan and celebrated murder victim in New York in 1836.
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