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Jeannie's Demise : abortion on trial in Victorian Toronto by Ian Walter Radforth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jeannie's Demise : abortion on trial in Victorian Toronto about?
August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of "Toronto the Good," cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures ran in
Who reads Jeannie's Demise : abortion on trial in Victorian Toronto?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ian Walter Radforth
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781771135139
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25