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