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Poor Pearl, Poor Girl: The Murdered Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper
Poor Pearl Poor Girl The Murdered Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper
Author: Anne B. Cohen
The year was 1896, and nineteenth-century journalists called the murder of Pearl Bryan the "Crime of the Century." From the day Pearl's headless body was found to the execution of her murderers on the gallows, the details of the murder fascinated newspaper reporters and ballad composers alike. — Often glossing over the facts of the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292764682
ISBN-10: 0292764685
Publication Date: 12/1981
Pages: 131
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Publisher: Univ of Texas Press
Book Type: Paperback
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