La Bonita Cigarera
Katy Emck, 3 October 1996
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in 19th-Century New York
by Amy GilmanSrebnick.
Oxford, 238 pp., £18.99, February 1996,9780195062373 Show More
by Amy GilmanSrebnick.
Oxford, 238 pp., £18.99, February 1996,
“... their moustaches with predatory know-how as they loitered in city bars, hotels and public parks. Amy Srebnick’s book shows that Mary Rogers – her virtue, her gruesome death, her role as fallen woman – was a catalyst for the mythologisation of New York and for some of the city’s most important mid-19th-century refoms. Mary had migrated to New ... ”
