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The Gentleman's daughter, or, A great city's temptations.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 Available online

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Format:
Book
Series:
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Wright American fiction [v.1] 1774-1850, no. 1020A
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Seduction--Fiction.
Seduction.
Asylums.
Elopement--Fiction.
Elopement.
Asylums--Fiction.
Illegitimate children--Fiction.
Illegitimate children.
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (54 pages).
Other Title:
Gentleman's daughter
Great city's temptations
Place of Publication:
New-York : Burgess and Stringer, 1843.
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Two columns to the page.
Agnes Fitzhenry, "the only child of a respectable merchant in a country town" is seduced by Clifford, a soldier, with whom she elopes, which results in her father having a mental breakdown. Learning of her lover's duplicity, Agnes leaves him only to discover that her father has become the inmate of a lunatic asylum when she returns home with an illegitimate son, Edward, in tow. A repentant Agnes raises her son and cares for her father.
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
OCLC:
937018008
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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