The Murder of Helen Jewett

The Murder of Helen Jewett

The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-century New York

by Patricia Cline Cohen

512 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780679740759
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Evoking the frenetic city life and sexual mores of early nineteenth-century America, a historian reconstructs the life of a servant girl from Maine who became a highly paid courtesan, and celebrated murder victim, in New York in 1836. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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