The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series , No 2) - Softcover

Pinzer, Maimie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558611436 ISBN 13: 9781558611436

Verlag: FEMINIST PR, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

In 1910, a remarkable correspondence began between a wealthy and distinguished Bostonian philanthropist, Fanny Quincy Howe, and Maimie Pinzer, a Jewish prostitute living in Philadelphia and recovering from a morphine addiction developed after the loss of an eye. The Maimie Papers is Maimie’s side of that correspondence, offering an unprecedented and still unique account of the life of a woman of the streets and her inspiring transformation.

An afterword by Ruth Rosen traces the elusive trail of Mamie’s life following the end of her correspondence, from an elegant apartment in Chicago to a new life in the glamorous Southern California of the late 1920s. The Mamie Papers introduces an unforgettable woman with a powerful writer’s voice, of whom the New York Times Book Review says, “Mamie writes like a dream. . . . An astonishing book.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FEMINIST PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1558611436
• ISBN 13: 9781558611436
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Herausgeber: Rosen Ruth, Davidson Sue
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar