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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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Main Author: Cohen, Patricia Cline.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Jewett, Helen, > 1813-1836.
Prostitutes > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Prostitution > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
New York (State) > New York.
United States > Moral conditions.
United States.
Biographies.
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Call Number: HQ146.N7 C65 1998
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