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Barcode30053003856955
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No364.152 DAWS
Title The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne / Kate Winkler Dawson.
Author Dawson, Kate Winkler, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003856955364.152 DAWS2/19/2025 Available

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Personal Name Dawson, Kate Winkler, author.
Title Statement The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne / Kate Winkler Dawson.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]
Physical Description 307 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) 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., 1799-1869.
Subject-Personal Name Williams, C. R. 1790-1872. (Catherine Read), Fall River.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Criminal investigation.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Forensic sciences.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder History 19th century. Massachusetts Fall River
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder History 19th century. Rhode Island

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