The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Last Hours of a Single Gentleman

"Last Hours of a Single Gentleman." New-York Saturday Press, August 27, 1859, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

Mr. Edward Pickney, a “rash” and “poor” youth, prepares through much food and alcoholic drink for his wedding to Mary Anne Gale. The narrator is sure to emphasize the dread surrounding a young man’s last hours of bachelorhood and the imprisonment marriage represents to men.