Fall River : an authentic narrative / Catharine Williams ; edited by Patricia Caldwell.
Material type: TextSeries: Women writers in English 1350-1850Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)1993.]Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) : portraitsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780195359343
- 0195359348
- PS3319.587
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Catharine Williams (1787-1872) lived most of her life in Rhode Island, where she supported herself and her daughter by a productive literary career. Her most compelling work, Fall River, last published in 1833, recreates a notorious incident in the ill-fated town of Fall River, Massachusetts: the trial of a Methodist minister for the murder of a pregnant mill worker whom it was suspected he had seduced. Williams's investigative report offers a vivid contemporary view of the lives of poor "factory girls" and of clerical corruption in the industrial towns of early New England. While ba.
FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Fall River, An Authentic Narrative; PREFACE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; APPENDIX.
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