She Devils At The Door

Author : Eliza Smith Brown
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon University Press Nonfiction
ISBN 13 : 9780887486982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Devils at the Door written by Eliza Smith Brown and published by Carnegie Mellon University Press Nonfiction. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Gilded Age's "political twins" who brought women's suffrage and political reform to the city of Pittsburgh. Sometimes troublemakers emerge from the most unlikely of places. This true story follows the lives of two daughters of the Gilded Age--Lucy and Eliza Kennedy--who were educated at Vassar College and became leaders of the suffrage movement. Then, after the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, they spent the next forty years fighting corruption in politics and government. Tenacious, smart, and witty, they captivated crowds, disarmed their opponents, and instilled particular dread among the corrupt politicians who were the unfortunate targets of their nonpartisan crusade. Their entry across the threshold of Pittsburgh's City-County Building would reportedly invoke a flurry of hushed warnings through the halls: "The She Devils are at the door!" Together, Lucy and Eliza fought for the vote, empowered women to use it wisely, forced a mayor out of office in disgrace, took control of the city budget, exposed a series of scandals, spearheaded police reform, and launched a campaign that would eventually clear Pittsburgh of its smoky veil. Featuring the true story of two powerful women, this book comes at a propitious time, reminding us how far women have come and how vigilant we must remain.

Author : Sarah Beth Hopton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253034655
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman at the Devil's Door written by Sarah Beth Hopton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman. On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied; her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby was found hidden underneath a nettle bush. So began the chilling story of the Hampstead Tragedy. Eventually, Scotland Yard knocked on the door of No. 2 Priory Street, home to Mary Eleanor Pearcey, the pretty 24-year-old mistress whose dying request was as bizarre and mysterious as her life. Woman at the Devil's Door is a thrilling look at this notorious murderer and the webs she wove.

Author : Anne Mcduff
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844547299
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Devils written by Anne Mcduff and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few women kill. When they do, it is often the tragic outcome of domestic abuse, drug addiction, or mental illness. It is rare for women to kill for pleasure, yet a few of that breed emerge in each generation. At the turn of the last century, with no adoption agencies to protect them, Annie Walters killed unwanted newborns.nbsp;Ninety years later, Aileennbsp;Wuornos sold herself on the highways of Florida, a well-known hunting ground for men looking for prostitutes, until she became the hunter. Rose West exploited lonely girls from nearby children's homes, and Myra Hindley took sickening advantage of the blind trust of Britain in the 1960s where children were safe to walk the streets alone. Beverley Allit and Marybeth Tinning thought that, as a nurse and a mother, the deaths of the children in their care would be seen as tragic accidents. And Karla Homolka exploited a different prejudice. She was prefect, pretty, and so caring as a veterinary nurse. No one ever imagined she could be a sexual predator and killer.

Author : Robert Seth McCallen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "He Demons" and "she Devils" written by Robert Seth McCallen and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leon Corkum
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434928136
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Devils from Hell written by Leon Corkum and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to cope with a person with schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder? To some, getting out of the situation altogether is the order of the day. After all, the situation may seem helpless and a sure way to waste the best years of one’s life. Not for Leon Corkum’s very best friend Noel, however. In She-Devils from Hell: Noel’s Personal Diary Chronicles, Leon tells in great detail how his close friend Noel had coped with a wife who suffers from the illness for no less than fifty years. Certainly, it is no mean feat, but as Leon admits, marriage is more than joy throughout; one must be wary since God Himself is a witness to the pact that binds two people together in all the aspects of living together. More than an account of the illness itself, this work reflects the hope, faith, and love of an extraordinary man amidst the most difficult situation one could imagine being in.

Author : Tessa Wegert
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144831139X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devils at the Door written by Tessa Wegert and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspicious drowning throws New York State senior investigator Shana Merchant's life into turmoil in this taut, thrilling small-town mystery - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Ruth Ware. Sixteen-year-old Henrietta used to be happy. But that was before her family hit the national news. Before she - and the whole world - knew she was related to one of New York's most prolific serial killers. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant readily agrees when her brother asks her to take in his troubled, rebellious daughter for the fall semester. Doug's convinced that spending a few months in Alexandria Bay with Shana will straighten Hen out. But when Hen arrives, Shana's not so sure. She can't help but distrust the strange and manipulative teen, who binge-watches bloody movies and roams the house at night, taking things that aren't hers. Soon, though, Shana has more to worry about than missing heirlooms when she's called to investigate the suspicious drowning of a local teenager, only to discover her niece at the scene of the crime. What happened that night on the dark, uninhabited island of Devil's Oven? With Hen and her new friends not talking, and a community determined to keep their secrets dead and buried, Shana knows it's a race against time to uncover the truth before her niece is upgraded from key witness to prime suspect.

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480412384
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Loves of a She Devil written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie She-Devil starring Meryl Streep: “A novel of blazingly hot revenge . . . Heaven [has] no rage like love turned to hate” (New York Magazine). Ruth loves her husband, Bobbo, a handsome, successful accountant. But Bobbo has fallen in love with Mary Fisher, a bestselling romance novelist who lives in a high tower overlooking the sea, pampered by her young, virile manservant. Mary is petite, dainty, and lovely. He tells Ruth about his affair and when Ruth reacts badly, he promptly moves out. In turn, Ruth decides to orchestrate a fiendish and masterful revenge. The Life and Loves of a She Devil is a masterpiece about love, hate, infidelity, corrosive envy, and the best kind of revenge.

Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The She-devils written by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Emerson McFarlane
Publisher : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Bolted Door? written by Arthur Emerson McFarlane and published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. This book was released on 1916 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Loehfelm
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142996880X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil She Knows written by Bill Loehfelm and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Devil She Knows, Bill Loehfelm has written a pitch-black thriller in a fresh, compulsively readable voice, with pages that turn themselves. This is the real deal: a breakout novel by a writer whom Publishers Weekly has praised for his "superb prose and psychological insights." Life isn't panning out for Maureen Coughlin. At twenty-nine, the tough-skinned Staten Island native's only excitement comes from . . . well, not much. A fresh pack of American Spirits, maybe, or a discreet dash of coke before work. If something doesn't change soon, she'll end up a "lifer" at the Narrows, the faux-swank bar where she works one long night after another. But just like the island, the Narrows has its seamy side. After work one night, Maureen walks in on a tryst between her co-worker Dennis and Frank Sebastian, a silver-haired politico. When Sebastian demands her silence, Maureen is more than happy to forget what she's seen—until Dennis turns up dead on the train tracks the next morning. The murder sends Maureen careening out of her stultifying routine and into fast-deepening trouble. Soon she's on the run through the seedy underbelly of the borough, desperate to stop Sebastian before Dennis's fate becomes her own.