Catharine Williams (1787-1872) lived such a lot of her existence in Rhode Island, the place she supported herself and her daughter via a efficient literary profession. Her so much compelling paintings, Fall River, final released in 1833, recreates a infamous incident within the ill-fated city of Fall River, Massachusetts: the trial of a Methodist minister for the homicide of a pregnant mill employee whom it was once suspected he had seduced. Williams's investigative record deals a shiny modern view of the lives of bad "factory ladies" and of clerical corruption within the business cities of early New England. whereas established in truth, the e-book increases issues of sexual and non secular hypocrisy and exploitation which may be in comparison with these of novels like The Coquette, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Scarlet Letter. even as, the author's mix of journalism, biography, fiction, and exhortation makes this "authentic narrative" an strange problem to standard notions of literary shape and yields clean insights into the character of early American women's writing.
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