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Barcode33333003373764
StatusChecked Out
Circ StatusDue on 1/31/2025
LibraryBeaver
TitleThe sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne / Kate Winkler Dawson.
AuthorDawson, Kate Winkler, author.
Call No364.1523 Dawson
CollectionNon-Fiction
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364.1523 Dawson Due on 1/31/2025BeaverNon-Fiction   333330033737642025
TRUE CRIME Dawson Hold InTransitBadenNon-Fiction   322220024056702025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593713624
International Standard Book Number 9780593713617
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 364.152/30974485
Personal Name Dawson, Kate Winkler, author.
Title Statement The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne / Kate Winkler Dawson.
Imprint New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]
Physical Description pages cm
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Cornell was found hanging in a barn, four months pregnant, after a disgraceful liaison with a charismatic Methodist minister, Reverend Ephraim Avery. Some (Avery's lawyers) claimed her death was suicide...but others weren't so sure. Determined to uncover the real story, intrepid Victorian writer Catharine Williams threw herself into the investigation and wrote what many claim is the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The case and Williams' book became a sensation-one that divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. But the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell's death. Until now. In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to 19th century small town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements-such as "forensic knot analysis" to determine cause of death, the prosecutor's notes from 1833, and criminal profiling which was invented 55 years later with Jack the Ripper-Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams' research to find the truth. Along the way she also examines how society decides who is the "right kind" of crime victim and how America's long history of religious evangelism may have clouded the facts both in the 1830s and today. Ultimately, The Sinners All Bow brings justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Cornell, Sarah Maria, 1802-1832.
Subject-Personal Name Avery, Ephraim K., -1869.
Subject-Personal Name Williams, C. R. (Catherine Read), 1790-1872. Fall River.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Massachusetts Fall River History 19th century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Criminal investigation.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Forensic sciences.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Rhode Island History 19th century.