The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Economic Policy & Development author of The New York

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The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Economic Policy & Development author of The New YorkIn the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Her story, parlayed into a long celebrated unsolved mystery, became grist for penny presses, social reformers, and politicians alike, and an impetus for popular literature, including Edgar Allen