Title: Bowery girl
Description: In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.
Subjects: Prostitutes, Robbers and outlaws, Orphans, Social settlements, Fiction, Poverty, History
Places: Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 19th century