Fall River : an authentic narrative / Catharine Williams ; edited by Patricia Caldwell.

Fall River : an authentic narrative / Catharine Williams ; edited by Patricia Caldwell.

9780195359343 (electronic bk.)
0195359348 (electronic bk.)
9786610760299
6610760292
019508036X (Cloth)
0195083598 (Paper)
9780195083590
9780195080360

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 170 pages) : portraits

PS3319.W587 F34 1993eb

(OCoLC)252639930

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Women writers in English 1350-1850.

Print version: Williams, C.R. (Catherine Read), 1790-1872. Fall River. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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