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Fall River: An Authentic Narrative

by Catharine Williams

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The culminating work of Catherine Read Arnold Williams, a 19th-century writer of pamphlets and other narrative prose, this novel recounts the famous murder of a mill girl and the subsequent trial of a popular minister of the period.

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Canonical title: Fall River: An Authentic Narrative

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Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Middle 19th Century 1830-1861
LCC: PS3319 .W587 .F34 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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Languages: English
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Published: 1993
Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813.3
LCC: PS3319 .W587 .F34

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