Some Account of Hannah H-----, Deceased, late Assistant Matron of the Magdalen Asylum of Philadelphia

by Magdalen Asylum

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

11pp. 12mo. Yellow printed wrappers. No copies in OCLC. Item #317323 Magdalen Society of Philadelphia was a charitable institution founded in Philaldelphia in 1800 to redeem fallen women , i.e. largely prostitutes. The Society’s stated purpose was restoring to the paths of virtue those unhappy females who in unguarded hours have been robbed of their innocence. The pamphlet details the deathbed prayers of a woman named

• Binding: Wrappers

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