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The Three Graces of Raymond Street : murder, madness, sex, and politics in 1870s Brooklyn /
"A compelling story about three murders in Brooklyn between 1872 and 1873 and the young women charged with the crimes. Between January 1872 and September 1873, the city of Brooklyn was gripped by accounts of three murders allegedly committed by young women: a factory girl shot her employer and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Excelsior editions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Living dangerously
- City air breathes free
- He told her not to do it
- A terrible thing to tell
- Lost city
- II. Jailhouse and courthouse
- Fanny of Raymond Street
- You have had me
- Look at her now
- Adulterous, militant Brooklyn
- III. Her poor Betsey
- Come in here and see him
- My God, it is plain!
- The same type of woman
- By other names
- Queer crime, queerer woman
- The positions that they're in
- IV. Three Graces
- Sarah and Maggie : a very strange ending
- A sealed confession?
- Sarah, Kate and Lucette of Raymond Street
- Brooklyn's lesser scandal, continued
- V. Women and the law
- A fourth Grace
- Last words
- Seems like a dream
- Remembered and forgotten.