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Mary, the maid of the inn : an affecting narrative, detailing the history of her youthful days : the singular way she discovers her lover to be a robber and murderer : he is apprehended and committed for trial : the distress of Mary, on being compelled to give evidence against her lover, through which he is convicted and executed : she loses her reason, her forlorn and destitute wanderings, until she is found frozen to death

Title
Mary, the maid of the inn : an affecting narrative, detailing the history of her youthful days : the singular way she discovers her lover to be a robber and murderer : he is apprehended and committed for trial : the distress of Mary, on being compelled to give evidence against her lover, through which he is convicted and executed : she loses her reason, her forlorn and destitute wanderings, until she is found frozen to death / from the poem by Robert Southey.
Publication
New-York : W. Borradaile, 1823.

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Additional Authors
  • Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
  • Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830.
Description
1 online resource (28 pages) : color illustrations.
Series Statement
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Uniform Title
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Subject
  • Murder > Fiction
  • Witnesses > Fiction
  • Blindness > Fiction
Note
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
Language (note)
  • The second of two works is an English translation from the French language.
Contents
Mary, the maid of the inn -- The blind girl / translated from the French of Madame De Genlis.
OCLC
  • 937014334
  • CPPC01673
Title
Mary, the maid of the inn : an affecting narrative, detailing the history of her youthful days : the singular way she discovers her lover to be a robber and murderer : he is apprehended and committed for trial : the distress of Mary, on being compelled to give evidence against her lover, through which he is convicted and executed : she loses her reason, her forlorn and destitute wanderings, until she is found frozen to death / from the poem by Robert Southey.
Publisher
New-York : W. Borradaile, 1823.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Language
The second of two works is an English translation from the French language.
Local Note
American Antiquarian Society copy frontispiece is hand-colored.
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Added Author
Adaptation of (work): Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. Mary, the maid of the inn.
Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830. Blind girl. English.
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