Fall River Authentic Narrative, First Edition (4 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Previous owner name sticker to inside cover. This book presents texts of cultural and literary interest in the English-speaking tradition, often for the first time since their original publication. Most of the writers represented in the series were well known and hihgly regarded until the professionalization of English studies in the later ninteenth century coincided with their excision from canonical status and from the marjority of literary histories. 170 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Condition: New. Editor(s): Caldwell, Patricia. Series: Women Writers in English, 1350-1850. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 247. . 1997. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

McDade 40. (illustrator). First Edition. McDade 40. McDade 40: One of Nineteenth-Century America's Most Famous Murder Cases [Williams, Catharine R. (1787-1872)]. Fall River, An Authentic Narrative. Boston: Sold by Lilly, Wait & Co.; Providence: Marshall, Brown & Co., 1833. [ii], 198 pp. With a woodcut frontispiece. 12mo. (6" x 3-1/2"; 15.5 x 9 cm). Original publisher's boards with cloth spine and printed label. Worn, boards nearly detached, spine and label mostly abraded, frontispiece and front endleaf detached. Moderate toning to interior, occasional light foxing and soiling. $250. * First edition. "When Sarah Cornell was found hanging from the frame of a haystack in Tiverton, Rhode Island, it might easily have been called suicide but for a note she had left in her bandbox saying, 'If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery, of Bristol,--he will know where I am.' This was the beginning of the Reverend's troubles and one of the most famous nineteenth-century cases" (McDade). The evidence against Avery in the court of public opinion was damning: Cornell was five months pregnant and Avery had been seen in the vicinity of the haystack on the day of her death. After a 27-day trial, however, he was acquitted. McDade notes that "while the verdict was undoubtedly sound on the evidence as presented, there is still enough doubt to make the case an interesting one for conjecture," and many writers took advantage of this opportunity. Williams, the author of this highly detailed, though somewhat romanticized account was a Rhode Island writer, poet and woman's suffrage activist. The work was reissued in 1834. McDade, The Annals of Murder 40 (and annotation to item 33).