The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a young woman known popularly as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," disappeared from her boarding house on Nassau Street in downtown New York. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and water-logged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Long a celebrated unsolved mystery, this case was a major cause celebre in New York City. In The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, the historian Amy Gilman Srebnick traces the story of Mary Rogers, using her death as a window into the urban culture and consciousness of mid-nineteenth-century New York.

First sentence: IN September 1841, Lydia Maria Child, the celebrated writer and abolitionist, visited the scene of what she and others described as the "Mary Rogers Tragedy."

Year

1995

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

3

Pages

240

ISBN

9780195113921

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