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The story of Chicago May / Nuala O'Faolain.
Van Pelt Library HV6248.D85 O43 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Faolain, Nuala.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duignan, Mary Ann, 1871-1929.
- Duignan, Mary Ann.
- Criminals--Biography.
- Criminals.
- Female offenders--Biography.
- Female offenders.
- Irish American women--Biography.
- Irish American women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- A unique, ruminative biography--a fascinating excursion into the American underworld at the dawn of the 20th century--chronicles the life of an unrespectable Irish woman and the hidden inner life of any woman who has tried to choose the unconventional path.
- Contents:
- I: 1890 to 1893
- 1. From Edenmore to the new world
- 2. Nebraska to Chicago
- II: 1893 to 1900
- 4. The tenderloin of Manhattan
- III: 1900 to 1907
- 5. The Paris heist
- 6. Escapes and homecomings
- 7. London
- IV: 1907 to 1917
- 8. Aylesbury
- V: 1917 to 1929
- 9. Downward to Detroit
- 10. Moving toward love.
- ISBN:
- 1573223204
- OCLC:
- 60373634
- Publisher Number:
- 9781573223201
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