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Fall River

Catherine Read Williams

1834170 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1834
first published
  • 1833Sold by Lilly, Wait & Co. · 198 pages · ENG
  • 1834Lilly, Wait & Co. · 198 pages · ENG
  • 1834Marshall, Brown & Co. · 213 pages
  • 1993Oxford University Press · ENGISBN 9781280760297
  • 1993Oxford University Press · 170 pages · ENGISBN 9780195080360
  • 2018Creative Media Partners, LLC · ENGISBN 9780343684662
  • 2018Creative Media Partners, LLC · ENGISBN 9780343684679
  • 2018Franklin Classics · 208 pagesISBN 9780341724858
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Fall River recreates a notorious incident in Fall River, Massachusetts: the trial of a Methodist minister for the murder of a pregnant mill worker whom it was suspected he had seduced. The work offers a view of the lives of poor factory girls and clerical corruption in early New England industrial towns.

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