The Murder of Helen Jewett

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

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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Mar 25, 2022