On November 1st, 1843, a dejected servant named Amelia Norman followed her former beau Henry Ballard to the steps of the Astor House Hotel in New York City. There she stabbed him with a folding knife, barely missing his heart.
The city’s newspapers and moral reformers quickly embraced Miss Norman’s cause, seeing it as an opportunity to change seduction laws and expand workers’ rights.
My guest, Julie Miller, is author of “Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York”. She offers insight into this sensational crime and its impact on the early days of the women’s movement in the United States.
Julie Miller. Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York. Three Hills, Cornell University Press, 2020
Blog posts:
http://thepanorama.shear.org/2021/01/11/amelia-norman-and-the-law-of-seduction/
Podcast interviews:
“Age of Jackson”
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43184097
Cornell University Press:
Buy the hardback or ebook:
Buy the audiobook:
Julie Miller, Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City. New York University Press, 2008
The George Washington Papers:
To see the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/george-washington-papers/about-this-collection/
The modern published edition of Washington’s papers is available on Founders Online, https://founders.archives.gov
Podcast interview, “Conversations at the Washington Library” (Mount Vernon):
A Library of Congress crowdsourcing project featuring Washington’s papers: “Ordinary Lives in George Washington’s Papers: The Revolutionary War”: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/ordinary-lives-in-george-washingtons-papers-the-revolutionary-war/
And more. See: https://www.loc.gov/
