Fall River : an authentic narrative / Catharine Williams ; edited by Patricia Caldwell.

By:

Williams, C. R. (Catherine Read), 1790-1872

Contributor(s):

Caldwell, Patricia

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Women writers in English 1350-1850Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) : portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780195359343
0195359348
9786610760299
6610760292

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fall River.DDC classification:

813/.3 20

LOC classification:

PS3319.W587 F34 1993eb

Other classification:

HL 4990
HT 7000

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Contents:

FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Fall River, An Authentic Narrative; PREFACE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; APPENDIX.

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.

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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.

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FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Fall River, An Authentic Narrative; PREFACE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; APPENDIX.

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