The murder of Helen Jewett : the life and death of a prostitute in nineteenth-century New York /
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen J...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1998.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.