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The mysterious death of Mary Rogers : sex and culture in nineteenth-century New York / Amy Gilman Srebnick.

By: Series: Studies in the history of sexualityPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xix, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 019506237X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/523/092 20
Contents:
1. Prologue: The Mary Rogers Tragedy -- 2. A Body Floating Between Two Tides -- 3. "The Beautiful Segar Girl": Mary in the City of the New World -- 4. The "Public Prints," the Body of Mary Rogers, and the Violence of Representation -- 5. "Who Murdered Mary Rogers?": Police Reform, Abortion, and the Criminalization of Private Life -- 6. Poe Detects Marie: Poe, Mary Rogers, and the Birth of Detective Fiction -- 7. Tales of New York in the Ink of Truth: Reinventing Mary Rogers.
Summary: In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a young woman known popularly as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," disappeared from her boarding house on Nassau Street in downtown New York. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and water-logged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Long a celebrated unsolved mystery, this case was a major cause celebre in New York City. In The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, the historian Amy Gilman Srebnick traces the story of Mary Rogers, using her death as a window into the urban culture and consciousness of mid-nineteenth-century New York.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 364.1523 ROG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 61741

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.

1. Prologue: The Mary Rogers Tragedy -- 2. A Body Floating Between Two Tides -- 3. "The Beautiful Segar Girl": Mary in the City of the New World -- 4. The "Public Prints," the Body of Mary Rogers, and the Violence of Representation -- 5. "Who Murdered Mary Rogers?": Police Reform, Abortion, and the Criminalization of Private Life -- 6. Poe Detects Marie: Poe, Mary Rogers, and the Birth of Detective Fiction -- 7. Tales of New York in the Ink of Truth: Reinventing Mary Rogers.

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a young woman known popularly as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," disappeared from her boarding house on Nassau Street in downtown New York. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and water-logged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Long a celebrated unsolved mystery, this case was a major cause celebre in New York City. In The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, the historian Amy Gilman Srebnick traces the story of Mary Rogers, using her death as a window into the urban culture and consciousness of mid-nineteenth-century New York.

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