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The murder of Helen Jewett : the life and death of a prostitute in nineteenth-century New York by Jewett, Helen; Cohen, Patricia Cline; Jewett, Helen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett. <br><br>From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four successive aliases, into a highly paid courtesan. She invented life stories for herself that
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- Author
- Jewett, Helen; Cohen, Patricia Cline; Jewett, Helen
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679740759
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Historical Fiction, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (782 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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