UBC: The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers

Srebnick, Amy Gilman. The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


I am disappointed in this book, and disappointed on several levels.

To start with, I am disappointed with Oxford University Press, which should damn well be able to copy-edit better than this. There are mistakes scattered throughout the text that a good copy-editor should catch: missing or incorrect apostrophes; using "criteria" as the singular; a s...