Dangerous to know : women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic /
In 1823, the History of the celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the gpvernor of Pennsylvania tantalized its aud...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2008]
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