The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York by Amy Gilman Srebnick
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Overview: Amy Srebnick tells the story of the death of Mary Rogers, antebellum New York City’s “Beautiful Cigar Girl”. First believed murdered by rapists, later thought the victim of a failed abortion, Mary Rogers became a cause celebre. Drawing upon the events that surrounded Rogers’s death, the author weaves a sensational narrative of sex, violence, and the city, and treats such subjects as the changing roles of women, the Penny Press, and abortion.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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