Author: Willard Smith GibbonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Digest of the Reports and Statutes of the State of New York from Jan. 1, 1890, to Jan. 1, 1897
Author: Willard Smith GibbonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
A Cumulated Index to the Books
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The United States Catalog
Author: Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles
Author: Cry of Murder on Broadway
Author: Julie MillerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501751506
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights. On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the new and luxurious Astor House Hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman had followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the hotel. Taking out a folding knife, she stabbed him, just missing his heart. Ballard survived the attack, and the trial that followed created a sensation. Newspapers in New York and beyond followed the case eagerly, and crowds filled the courtroom every day. The prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child championed Norman and later included her story in her fiction and her writing on women's rights. The would-be murderer also attracted the support of politicians, journalists, and legal and moral reformers who saw her story as a vehicle to change the law as it related to "seduction" and to advocate for the rights of workers. Cry of Murder on Broadway describes how New Yorkers, besotted with the drama of the courtroom and the lurid stories of the penny press, followed the trial for entertainment. Throughout all this, Norman gained the sympathy of New Yorkers, in particular the jury, which acquitted her in less than ten minutes. Miller deftly weaves together Norman's story to show how, in one violent moment, she expressed all the anger that the women of the emerging movement for women's rights would soon express in words.
The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Author: Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Author: