The Vault at Pfaff's

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

She is Good for Nothing [translated from the German of Hans Christian Andersen] [for the New York Saturday Press]

Andersen, Hans Christian. "She is Good for Nothing [translated from the German of Hans Christian Andersen] [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, April 17, 1860, 4.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

A poor washerwoman drinks herself to death, leaving her little son an orphan. Fortunately, a man whom she helped many years before left her a large amount of money which the son stands to inherit.