Women

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Detective Jayne Takes on Widows and Adventuresses [published Sep. 28, 1884]

jpkntz May 12, 2024

Droppin’ in at the Fifth Avenue Hotel some...

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Gentlemanly Chester A. Arthur Defends Lizzie Jennings’ Right to Ride a Streetcar [published Sep. 23, 1883]

jpkntz April 15, 2024

About the time I came from England to...

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A Fracas With Lola Montez; A Spat With Adah Isaacs Menken [published June 26, 1881]

jpkntz February 26, 2024

I saw John Mullaly the other day passin’...

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The Gentleman’s Gentleman Who Was a Lady [published Jun. 7, 1885]

jpkntz February 6, 2024

The papers have lately been full of the...

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Miss America (Vespucci) Comes to New York [published May 31, 1885]

jpkntz February 5, 2024

All sorts of people come to New York...

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Two Notorious (Tomato-Eating) Women [published July 13, 1884]

jpkntz January 4, 2024

I took a tomato salad lunch the other...

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Fanny and Sylvia Wright, Free Thinkers [published Dec. 3, 1882]

jpkntz December 18, 2023

Passing the Hoffman House recently, and lookin’ at...

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The Luck of Mazeppa and the Fall of a Prima Donna [published May 7, 1882]

jpkntz December 8, 2023

I have before alluded to one of the...

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Two Infamous Wife-Murderers [published Feb. 12, 1882]

jpkntz December 1, 2023

[Warning: The following newspaper column, written in 1882, contains...

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The Queens of New York Society [published Feb. 1, 1885]

jpkntz November 18, 2023

The so-called ”Queen of Wall Street,” Mrs. Green,...