The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-century New York
- ISBN-10
- 0679740759
- ISBN-13
- 9780679740759
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Patricia Cline Cohen
Description
Evoking the frenetic city life and sexual mores of early nineteenth-century America, a historian reconstructs the life of a servant girl from Maine who became a highly paid courtesan, and celebrated murder victim, in New York in 1836. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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