Mortimer and the Witches by Marie Carter - 9781531506247

Mortimer and the WitchesA History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers\nAuthor(s): Marie Carter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531506247, 978-1531506247\nSynopsis\nUNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIME\n The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them\n 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 public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized f.