Title: Fall River
First published: 1834
Description: Fall River recreates a notorious incident in Fall River, Massachusetts: the trial of a Methodist minister for the murder of a pregnant mill worker whom it was suspected he had seduced. The work offers a view of the lives of poor factory girls and clerical corruption in early New England industrial towns.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Murder, Historical, Fiction, short stories (single author), Trials (Murder), Indecent assault, Clergy
Places: Fall River, Fall River (Mass.), Massachusetts
People: Ephraim K. Avery (d. 1869), Sarah Maria Cornell (1802-1832)
Time periods: 19th century