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Fall River: An Authentic Narrative Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition

by Catharine Read Williams; Patricia Caldwell (Editor)


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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 based in fact, the book raises themes of sexual and religious hypocrisy and exploitation that may be compared with those of novels like The Coquette, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Scarlet Letter. At the same time, the author's mixture of journalism, biography, fiction, and exhortation makes this "authentic narrative" an unusual challenge to traditional notions of literary form and yields fresh insights
into the nature of early American women's writing.

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  • Title Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
  • Author Catharine Read Williams; Patricia Caldwell (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1993-09-02
  • ISBN 9780195083590 / 0195083598
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.21 x 5.42 x 0.54 in (20.85 x 13.77 x 1.37 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Cornell, Sarah Maria - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92016762
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 11/19/1995, Page 44
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