Ein neues Trauer-Lied : enthaltend die Geschichte der Susanna Cox, die in Reading wegen den Mord ihres Kindes hingerichtet wurde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gombert, Johann.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18183.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Cox, Susanna, -1809.

Cox, Susanna.

Infanticide--Pennsylvania--Reading.

Infanticide.

Murder--Pennsylvania--Reading.

Murder.

Executions and executioners--Pennsylvania--Reading.

Executions and executioners.

Crime--Pennsylvania--Reading.

Crime.

Pennsylvania--Reading.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1809.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 44 x 25 cm

Other Title:

Sorrow song of Susanna Cox.

Place of Publication:

[Reading, Pa.?] : [publisher not identified], [1809]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Verse in thirty-two stanzas; first line: Ach merket auf ihr Menschen all.

Attributed to Johann Gombert, a Bern Township schoolmaster who was present at the execution of Susanna Cox on June 10, 1809, in Reading, Pa., for the murder of her newborn child. Several broadside editions of the poem were issued soon after the event. Cf. Homan, Wayne E. "The sorrow song of Susanna Cox," in Pennsylvania folklife (Summer 1971), p. 14-16.

Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 38.7 x 17.3 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18183).

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