The Three Graces of Raymond Street : murder, madness, sex, and politics in 1870s Brooklyn /

The Three Graces of Raymond Street : murder, madness, sex, and politics in 1870s Brooklyn /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1949-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015.
Series:Excelsior editions.
Subjects:
Murder > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Women murderers > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Female offenders > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Insanity defense > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Sex role > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > New York > History > 19th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Living dangerously
  • City air breathes free
  • He told her not to do it
  • A terrible thing to tell
  • Lost city
  • II. Jailhouse and courthouse
  • Fanny of Raymond Street
  • You have had me
  • Look at her now
  • Adulterous, militant Brooklyn
  • III. Her poor Betsey
  • Come in here and see him
  • My God, it is plain!
  • The same type of woman
  • By other names
  • Queer crime, queerer woman
  • The positions that they're in
  • IV. Three Graces
  • Sarah and Maggie : a very strange ending
  • A sealed confession?
  • Sarah, Kate and Lucette of Raymond Street
  • Brooklyn's lesser scandal, continued
  • V. Women and the law
  • A fourth Grace
  • Last words
  • Seems like a dream
  • Remembered and forgotten.