Author: Abraham PRESCOTTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Report of the trial of A. Prescott on an indictment for the murder of Mrs. S. Cochran, etc
Author: Abraham PRESCOTTReport of the Trial of Abraham Prescott, for the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke, June 23, 1833
Author: Abraham PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Murder in a Mill Town
Author: Bruce DorseyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197633110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century." After her death--after she became the country's most notorious "factory girl"--Cornell's choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about their new world of industry and women's labor and the power of religion in the early republic. Writers penned seduction tales, true-crime narratives, detective stories, political screeds, songs, poems, and melodramatic plays about the lurid scandal. As trial witnesses, ordinary people gave testimony that revealed rapidly changing times. As the controversy of Cornell's murder spread beyond the courtroom, the public eagerly devoured narratives of moral deviance, abortion, suicide, mobs, "fake news," and conspiracy politics. Long after the jury's verdict, the nation refused to let the scandal go. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, Murder in a Mill Town exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.
Catalogue of books added to the library of Congress
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336811980X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress (Washington).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress, from December 1, 1869, to December 1, 1870
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogues
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Catalogue of books added to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1789-1865
Author: Norman DainPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
Author: New York University. School of Law. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description