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Dangerous to Know : Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (195 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201420
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dangerous to KnowDDC classification:
  • 305.48/9623092274811
LOC classification:
  • HQ1439.P5 -- B73 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. TWO WORKING WOMEN -- 2. MARRIAGE, MANHOOD, AND MURDER -- 3. THE "ENRAGED TYGRESS -- 4. COURTING NOTORIETY -- 5. AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN -- 6. BETRAYAL AND REVENGE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Summary: This tale of kidnapping, betrayal, and murder follows the lives of two women on the margins of early nineteenth-century society, showing how they manipulated conventions to further their own ends while redefining what was possible for women in early American public life.
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COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. TWO WORKING WOMEN -- 2. MARRIAGE, MANHOOD, AND MURDER -- 3. THE "ENRAGED TYGRESS -- 4. COURTING NOTORIETY -- 5. AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN -- 6. BETRAYAL AND REVENGE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

This tale of kidnapping, betrayal, and murder follows the lives of two women on the margins of early nineteenth-century society, showing how they manipulated conventions to further their own ends while redefining what was possible for women in early American public life.

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