| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) : portraits. |
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text file |
| Series |
Women writers in English 1350-1850
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Women writers in English 1350-1850.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cornell, Sarah Maria, 1802-1832 -- Fiction.
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Cornell, Sarah Maria, 1802-1832. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Avery, Ephraim K., 1799-1869 -- Fiction.
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Avery, Ephraim K., 1799-1869. |
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Murder -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Murder. |
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Massachusetts -- Fall River. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Fall River (Mass.) -- History -- Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Indexed Term |
English fiction. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Caldwell, Patricia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, C.R. (Catherine Read), 1790-1872. Fall River. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92016762 |
| ISBN |
9780195359343 (electronic book) |
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0195359348 (electronic book) |
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019508036X (Cloth) |
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0195083598 (Paper) |
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9780195083590 |
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9780195080360 |
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