Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers

by Marie Carter

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531506240
• ISBN13: 9781531506247
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"