Fall River, An Authentic Narrative

by the Author of "Tales, National, Revolutionary" etc. etc. [Catharine Read Williams]

Providence:  Printed by Cranston & Hammond, 1833  

Hardback is overall in GOOD+ condition.

• 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 photos.
• PS2026.0917

198 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 of journalism, 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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