Somewhat of a struggle to get through this one, but I did finish it a couple of days ago. Turns out it was the fourth book based on this case that I have read: three novels, and this non-fiction study of the investigation.
The three novels were: The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott, Avery's Knot by Mary Cable, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Reading multiple books on this topic/case was totally unintentional. Women moving into the work force of the industrial revolution has always interested me, as have the changing religious leanings in Colonial America. This book spoke to the burgeoning freedoms of women in both the factories of New England and in the tent-revival religiosity of Methodism moving away from the Puritan ways of worshiping. It also spoke to the bias and discrimination they had to deal with.
FYI, I am still plugging away at Moby Dick. Finally in the final quarter of the book.
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