The Murder of Helen Jewett
$42.07
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
15 August 1999
Summary
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 Jewett.
From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four successive aliases, into a highly paid courtesan. She invented life stories for herself t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679740759 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679740759 |
| Author: | Patricia Cline Cohen |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 1999 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Vintage Bks. |
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About The Author
Patricia Cline Cohen
Patricia Cline Cohen is Professor of History and Acting Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1991 to 1996 she chaired the Women’s Studies Program there. She is the author of A Calculating People- The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1985) and of numerous articles and reviews, and a coauthor of The American Promise (1997).
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