The Maimie Papers

Literature & Fiction

Pinzer, Maimie

Essays & Correspondence

Indiana University Press

Davidson, Sue

Howe, Fanny Quincy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Virago

This is the story of the friendship of two women from different social and economic classes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ruth Rosen

Sue Davidson

Anthropology

Feminist Press

In 1910, a remarkable correspondence began between a wealthy and distinguished Bostonian philanthropist, Fanny Quincy Howe, and Maimie Pinzer, a Jewish prostitute living in Philadelphia and recovering from a morphine addiction developed after the loss of an eye. The Maimie Papers is Maimie’s side of that correspondence, offering an unprecedented and still unique account of the life of a woman of the streets and her inspiring transformation. An afterword by Ruth Rosen traces the elusive trail of Mamie’s life following the end of her correspondence, from an elegant apartment in Chicago to a new life in the glamorous Southern California of the late 1920s. The Mamie Papers introduces an unforgettable woman with a powerful writer’s voice, of whom the New York Times Book Review says, Mamie writes like a dream. . . . An astonishing book.”

The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Feminist Press at CUNY

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