Mortimer and the witches: a history of nineteenth-century fortune tellers

"The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them. Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York...

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1. Verfasser: Carter, Marie 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Empire State Editions [2024]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them. Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City's tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized fortune tellers while also detailing Mortimer Thomson's peculiar and complicated biography."--
Beschreibung:vii, 165 Seiten, 10 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Portraits 24 cm
ISBN:9781531506247

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