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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
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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Paul Marvin Rudolph
Paul Marvin Rudolph 1918-97, American modernist architect, b. Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at several universities and served as chair of the Yale Univ. architecture department from 1958-65. He was one of the most influential American architects of the mid-20th cent., creating buildings that were... Read more |
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Hermione
Hermione , in Greek mythology, the only daughter of Helen and Menelaus . When Helen eloped with Paris, Hermione was abandoned to the care of Clytemnestra. She later married Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. In Euripides' Andromache, she is carried off by Orestes who marries her after he has... Read more |
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Helen Thomas resignation
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Helen Hayes Theatre
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Helen Mirren
MIRREN, Helen 1945(?)– (Dame Helen Mirren) PERSONAL |
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Mass murder
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Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal , 1908-2005, Austrian-Jewish Nazi hunter, b. Butschatsch, Austria-Hungary (now Buchach, Ukraine). He received (1932) an architectural engineering degree in Prague and practiced in Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). After the Germans invaded (1941) he was sent to a forced labor camp... Read more |
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Orestes (mythology)
Orestes in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers,... Read more |
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in...
...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 ... |
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Sex, murder, and injustice in Old New York
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 ... |
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MURDER AND MEANINGS IN U.S. HISTORIOGRAPHY.
...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 ... |
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Review Essay: The Lure of the sensational murder.
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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Paperbacks
...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 ... |
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BOOKS ABOUT REAL PEOPLE.(BOOKS)
...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 ... |
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IN AGE OF SCANDAL, 19TH-CENTURY STORY ABOUT ONE IS...
...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 ... |
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Death in a Bordello
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... |
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Blue books.(Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in...
...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... |
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MURDERS MOST TAWDRY AND TITILLATING
...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, ... |