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Sarah Orne Jewett Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett 1849-1909, American novelist and short-story writer, b. South Berwick, Maine. Her studies of small-town New England life are perceptive, sympathetic, and gently humorous. After contributing to periodicals, she published her first collection of stories and sketches, Deephaven, in... Read more
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F. O. Matthiessen (Francis Otto Matthiessen) , 1902-50, American critic, b. Pasadena, Calif., grad. Yale Univ., 1923, B.Litt., Oxford, 1925, Ph.D., Harvard, 1927. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he was professor of history and literature at Harvard (1929-50). As a critic Matthiessen was interested in... Read more
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Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal
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Orestes (mythology) Orestes (mythology)
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in...
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books ...family, there was Helen Jewett, whose violent death...treatment. But murder was rare in New York, and the Jewett murder rarer still...more than a client to Jewett. He was actually...least in readers. Helen ...
Sex, murder, and injustice in Old New York
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) THE MURDER OF HELEN JEWETT The Life and Times of a Prostitute...mayhem was nightly acted out on stage. Helen Jewett, a 23-year-old prostitute, and...Jewett case, like later notorious murders, became an ...
MURDER AND MEANINGS IN U.S. HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Magazine article from: Feminist Studies ...both based on real murder cases) as well as Caleb...s novels about serial murder and infanticide in turn...back and forth between murders and their interpersonal...of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South...Cohen, in The Murder of ...
Review Essay: The Lure of the sensational murder.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death...Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven...subject. Such sensational murders, although regular occurrences...studies of historical murders. Virginia ...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...bloody, half-burned body of Helen Jewett, one of the resident prostitutes...Patricia Cline Cohen reports in The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute...a young clerk who had visited Helen earlier that ...
BOOKS ABOUT REAL PEOPLE.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...best-seller -- ``A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of...them together. ``The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute...tabloid-feeding frenzy. Prostitute Helen Jewett, a former servant girl ...
IN AGE OF SCANDAL, 19TH-CENTURY STORY ABOUT ONE IS...
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...debacle and the 1836 murder of a young New York City...book, ``The Murder of Helen Jewett,'' by the peculiar...On April 9, 1836, Helen Jewett was found dead...Great Unhung. ``The Murder of ...
Death in a Bordello
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post THE MURDER OF HELEN JEWETT The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New YorkBy...morning hours of April 10, 1836, the body of a young woman named Helen Jewett was discovered in the bed she occupied at a house of prostitution...
Blue books.(Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in...
Magazine article from: Artforum International ...New York prostitution, Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett (1998), a reconstruction of the life and death of...prostitute killed in a Thomas Street brothel in 1836, and Helen Horowitz's Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge...
MURDERS MOST TAWDRY AND TITILLATING
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ...just the sensational. Murder, big murder at least, can encapsulate...each of these five murders -- from 1836 to 1964...of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White...refined prostitute named Helen Jewett, for example, ...

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