Download or read book Mortimer and the Witches written by Marie Carter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Living primarily in the poor section of the Lower East Side, nineteenth-century fortune tellers offered their clients answers to all questions in astrology, love, and law matters. They promised to cure ailments. They spoke of loved ones from beyond the grave. Yet Doesticks saw them as the worst of the worst evil-doers. His investigative reporting aimed to stop unsuspecting young women from seeking the corrupt soothsaying advice of these so-called clairvoyants and to expose the absurd and woefully inaccurate predictions of these “witches.” Marie Carter views these stories of working-class, immigrant women with more depth than Doesticks’s mocking articles would allow. In her analysis and discussion, she presents them as three-dimensional figures rather than the caricatures Doesticks made them out to be. What other professions at that time allowed women the kind of autonomy afforded by fortune-telling? Their eager customers, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants trying to navigate life in a new country, weren’t as naive and gullible as Doesticks made them out to be. They were often in need of guidance, seeking out the advice of someone who had life experience to offer or simply enjoying the entertainment and attention. Mortimer and the Witches offers new insight into the neglected histories of working-class fortune tellers and the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them.

Download or read book Following the Drum written by Teresa Griffin Vielé and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Isabella Orsini written by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi's "Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century" is a captivating journey back in time to the Italian Renaissance. Guerrazzi's meticulous research and vivid prose bring the fifteenth century to life, weaving a tale of historical intrigue and romance. If you have a passion for historical fiction and the rich tapestry of Renaissance Italy, this novel offers a compelling glimpse into a bygone era filled with political drama and personal passion.

Download or read book The Life and Times of Hugh Miller written by Thomas N. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Story of the Telegraph and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable Etc With a Plate and a Map written by Charles Frederick BRIGGS (and MAVERICK (Augustus)) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Way side Glimpses North and South written by Lillian Foster and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Systematic Index to the Books of the St Louis Public School Library written by St. Louis Public School Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kellys and the O Kellys written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Curiosities of Natural History written by Francis Trevelyan Buckland and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Curiosities of Natural History A geological auction The Gamekeeper s museum In memoriam A hunt on the sea shore written by Francis Trevelyan Buckland and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Routledge Revivals The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830 1890 1983 written by David E. E. Sloane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.

Download or read book Undercover Reporting written by Brooke Kroeger and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting—the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.