The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) - Softcover

Pinzer, Maimie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558611436 ISBN 13: 9781558611436

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1997

Synopsis

In 1910, a remarkable correspondence began between a wealthy and distinguished Bostonian philanthropist, Fanny Quincy Howe, and Maimie Pinzer, a Jewish prostitute living in Philadelphia and recovering from a morphine addiction developed after the loss of an eye. The Maimie Papers is Maimie’s side of that correspondence, offering an unprecedented and still unique account of the life of a woman of the streets and her inspiring transformation.

An afterword by Ruth Rosen traces the elusive trail of Mamie’s life following the end of her correspondence, from an elegant apartment in Chicago to a new life in the glamorous Southern California of the late 1920s. The Mamie Papers introduces an unforgettable woman with a powerful writer’s voice, of whom the New York Times Book Review says, “Mamie writes like a dream. . . . An astonishing book.”

About this title

About the Author

MAIMIE PINZER is the pseudonym of the author of the letters collected in THE MAIMIE PAPERS.

RUTH ROSEN is professor of history at the University of California, Davis and author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America.

SUE DAVIDSON is the author of the biographies A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin & Patsy T. Mink and Getting the Real Story: Nellie Bly & Ida B. Wells.

FLORENCE HOWE is professor of English at The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, and director of The Feminist Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558611436
• ISBN 13: 9781558611436
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Rosen Ruth, Davidson Sue