Details
Title Caswell, Berengera Dalton, 1828-1850.
Alternate title Portrait of Mary Bean, the Factory Girl.
Publisher [Boston? : s.n.]
Date [1850?]
Physical description 1 print : col. engraving ; 13 x 11.3 cm.
Notes In J.A.B. Mary Bean: the factory girl / a domestic story, illustrative of the trials and temptations of factory life (Boston, 1850), front wrapper.
Waist-length portrait of Bean, wearing a bracelet.
Miss Caswell, also known as Mary Bean, was a factory girl who became the subject of popular fiction after her body was discovered in a stream, following her death by a botched abortion.
"Not unfrequently impatient of restraint, and indisposed to listen to the voice of counsel, the unthinking female is ensnared in the toils of the destroyer, and being insidiously led onward, step by step, she awakes from her dream of fancied happiness, but to mourn over her dishonor, and the destruction of her cherished hopes. Such was the case with Mary Bean. Her life, her sufferings, and her death, are but a picture of the life, the sufferings, and the death of many others. Let those of her sex, then, who may chance to read these pages, be admonished in season, and not turn a deaf ear to those counsels, which, if regarded, would save them from misery and dishonor."--P. 40.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Caswell, Berengera Dalton, 1828-1850 -- Portraits.
Murder victims -- Fiction.
Factories.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7390.jpg
Related resource http://www.librarycompany.org/women/virtue/vice.htm