FALL RIVER, AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE, by Catharine Read Williams - 1833 [1st Ed... For Sale

Providence: Printed by Cranston & Hammond, 1833

• Tan covers, one-quarter cloth, with traces of label at spine.
• Boards show some wear, smudges, aging, scuffing, edgewear. Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board. See photos.
• Cloth at spine is worn, with traces of blue label, and chipped, frayed ends. See photos.
• Binding is fragile, with signs of splitting at top board, visible stitches at openings. See photos.
• Pastedowns and feps have some moderate foxing, staining, wear.
• Frontispiece is present.
• Interior exhibits moderate to heavy foxing throughout, some smudges, light edgewear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. See pages. 3 5/8 x 6 inches

  First Edition. With a woodcut frontispiece. Publisher\'s boards with cloth spine and printed label. Original and unrestored; boards show age and wear, spine and label largely abraded. Interior is tanned, with foxing throughout. Condition is overall Good Plus.

  Catharine Read Williams (1787-1872) lived most of her life in Rhode Island, where she supported herself and her daughter by a productive literary career. Fall River recreates a notorious incident in the mill town of Fall River, the trial of a Methodist minister for the murder of a pregnant mill worker whom it was suspected he had seduced. Williams\'s account is somewhat romanticized, but her mixture ofjournalism, biography, fiction, and exhortation constitutes a challenge to traditional notions of literary form and yields fresh insights into the nature of early American women\'s writing.

  First Edition. Sold by Lilly, Wait & Co., Boston; Marshall, Brown & Co., Providence, 1833. Printed by Cranston & Hammond, Providence.

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