Julie Miller

Cry of Murder on Broadway

A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 280 Seiten
ISBN 1501751484
EAN 9781501751486
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2020
Verlag/Hersteller Cornell University Press
29,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

"Amelia Norman challenged the idea that the fallen woman of the nineteenth century was inevitably 'ruined.' This book shows how the desperate act of this aspiring murderess came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic depression and expanding expectations for equal rights"--

Portrait

Julie Miller is the author of Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City. She taught in the history department at Hunter College, City University of New York, before moving to Washington, DC.