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BL
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1017373
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b771743
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| Main Entry
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Williams, C. R., (Catherine Read),1790-1872.
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| Title & Author
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Fall River : : an authentic narrative /\ Catharine Williams ; edited by Patricia Caldwell.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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Women writers in English 1350-1850
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) :: portraits
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| ISBN
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0195359348
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: 6610760292
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: 9780195359343
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: 9786610760299
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019508036X
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0195083598
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9780195080360
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9780195083590
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Avery, Ephraim K.,1799-1869
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Cornell, Sarah Maria,1802-1832
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Avery, Ephraim K.,1799-1869
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Cornell, Sarah Maria,1802-1832
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| Subject
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Murder-- Massachusetts-- Fall River-- History-- 19th century, Fiction.
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FICTION-- Historical.
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Murder.
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Fall River (Mass.), History, Fiction.
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Massachusetts, Fall River.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3
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| LC Classification
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PS3319.W587F34 1993eb
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HL 4990rvk
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HT 7000rvk
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| Added Entry
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Caldwell, Patricia.
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