Butchery on Bond Street

On my Christmas wishlist: Butchery on Bond Street, Sexual Politics & The Burdell-Cunningham Case In Ante-Bellum New York, By Benjamin Feldman. The description promises a story of ‘murder, mayhem and fraud in the mid-19th century.’ This book is actually not fiction at all: “Ben Feldman has mined the newspapers, court records and dozens of other primary sources to give us a vibrant portrait of Emma Cunningham’s struggle to stay respectable and keep herself and her children out of the poorhouse and off the streets. “