The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax
by Fingard, Judith
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0919001580
- ISBN 13
- 9780919001589
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About This Item
Porters Lake: Pottersfield Press [0-919001-58-0] 1989. (Trade paperback) 224pp. Very good. Maps, tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. The covers are lightly edgeworn and there is some highlighting and ink notation throughout the text. "Historian Judith Fingard reconstructs the lives and social environment of a group of mid-Victorian repeat offenders. The gallery of jailbirds includes the would-be suicide Margaret Howard, the ill-fated prostitute Mary Slattery, the black sheep James Prendergast and his battered wife Mary Ford, the chronic alcoholic Andrew Doyle and the black whitewasher John Kellum". Time Period Victorian. Locale: Canada; Halifax--Nova Scotia; Maritime Provinces. (Canada, Criminals, Social Conditions).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155017
- Title
- The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax
- Author
- Fingard, Judith
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0919001580
- ISBN 13
- 9780919001589
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Place of Publication
- Porters Lake
- This edition first published
- January 1998
- Keywords
- Canada, Criminals, Social Conditions
- Bookseller catalogs
- CANADIAN HISTORY;
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