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Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers
By Marie Carter
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By Marie Carter
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UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIME
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them
Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the p...
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them
Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the p...
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