Poor Pearl, Poor Girl! : : The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper / / Anne B. Cohen.
The year was 1896, and nineteenth-century journalists called the murder of Pearl Bryan the "Crime of the Century." From the day Pearl's headless body was found to the execution of her murderers on the gallows, the details of the murder fascinated newspaper reporters and ballad compose...
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