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#MeToo in 1872: On Beats and Hussies

Early in 1872, a young woman named Emma Couch hurried along Bleecker Street on a mission. Bleecker was New York’s most bohemian thoroughfare. Stately mansions testified to the wealth and fashion formerly inhabiting its blocks. Now signs on their facades...

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