| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) : portraits |
| Series |
Women writers in English 1350-1850 |
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Women writers in English 1350-1850.
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| Summary |
Catharine Williams (1787-1872) lived most of her life in Rhode Island, where she supported herself and her daughter by a productive literary career. Her most compelling work, Fall River, last published in 1833, recreates a notorious incident in the ill-fated town of Fall River, Massachusetts: the trial of a Methodist minister for the murder of a pregnant mill worker whom it was suspected he had seduced. Williams's investigative report offers a vivid contemporary view of the lives of poor "factory girls" and of clerical corruption in the industrial towns of early New England. While ba |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cornell, Sarah Maria, 1802-1832 -- Fiction
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Avery, Ephraim K., 1799-1869 -- Fiction
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| SUBJECT |
Avery, Ephraim K., 1799-1869 fast |
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Cornell, Sarah Maria, 1802-1832 fast |
| Subject |
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Historical.
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Murder
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| SUBJECT |
Fall River (Mass.) -- History -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Massachusetts -- Fall River
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction
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Fiction
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History
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caldwell, Patricia.
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| LC no. |
92016762 |
| ISBN |
9780195359343 |
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0195359348 |
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9786610760299 |
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6610760292 |
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