The mysterious death of Mary Rogers : sex and culture in nineteenth-century New York / Amy Gilman Srebnick.
Series: Studies in the history of sexualityPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xix, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 019506237X
- Rogers, Mary, 1820-1841
- Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Sex crimes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- 364.1/523/092 20
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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