How a Woman's Quest For Vengeance Started a #metoo Movement in the 1840s

How a Woman's Quest For Vengeance Started a #metoo Movement in the 1840s

Amelia Norman, destitute and abandoned, attacked her former lover on the steps of the Astor House Hotel. Her trial would have surprising, and long-lasting, repercussions.

By Julie Miller | November 6, 2020

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