The Sewing Girl's Tale Quotes

“Sandy”
― John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

“men paid one group of women to provide the services that their respectable counterparts would not.”
― John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

“In the 1790s, more than a century before the invention of modern dating culture, an underground sexual economy flourished on a scale almost unimaginable today. Men, whether they were married or not, enjoyed wide sexual latitude: they could often pursue an active sexual double life without incident. Women, on the other hand, faced a stark contrast between sexual respectability and social ruin.”
― John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

“A rake, at the time, was a very specific kind of man: an elite sexual predator.”
― John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America