Swindler, spy, rebel: the confidence woman in nineteenth century America
One would not expect a police officer to describe a criminal as "remarkable," "well worth knowing," or "excellent." Yet some did when their quarry was a confidence woman. Blackmailer, swindler, or pickpocket: the confidence woman could take any form. Regardless of their...
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| Summary: | One would not expect a police officer to describe a criminal as "remarkable," "well worth knowing," or "excellent." Yet some did when their quarry was a confidence woman. Blackmailer, swindler, or pickpocket: the confidence woman could take any form. Regardless of their different motives and tactics, confidence women have much in common, for they have long been misrepresented in American literature and culture. In Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America, Kathleen De Grave redresses the exaggerations and distortions by examining how the line between fact and fiction blurs Drawing from a variety of sources, such as memoirs, diaries, detective reports, newspaper accounts, and sociological studies written during the period, De Grave first presents a historical context. By comparing the exploits of such women as "Chicago May" Churchill, "Big Bertha" Heyman, and Ellen Peck to those of fictional women who used the same strategies in noncriminal situations, De Grave broadens the definition of the confidence woman beyond criminality to include adventuresses, soldiers/spies, and "gold diggers." Next, she relates how the confidence woman appears in autobiographies and in fiction. She further expands her argument to include the narrative devices of nineteenth-century women writers who used a kind of confidence game as a way to lure their readers into the text |
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Spy,
Rebel
The Confidence Woman in
Nineteenth-Century America
Kathleen De Grave
University of Missouri Press Columbia and London
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Confronting the Confidence Woman 1
2 The Confidence Woman in Context 17
3 Types of Confidence Women in History 55
4 Autobiographies of Confidence Women 108
5 Literature: Muting the Voice 158
6 The Writer as Confidence Woman 188
7 Stowe to Wharton: A Bold Move 235
Bibliography 251
Index 263
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