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

The New Cinderella: A Bachelor Experience [for the New York Saturday Press]

Saerasmid. "The New Cinderella: A Bachelor Experience [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, March 10, 1860, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The narrator, Rufus Storke, begins by telling of an invitation to a charity ball which he reluctantly attends. There he flirts, dances, and escorts home a beautiful woman named Hannah, finding out later that she is the governess of a wealthy home-owner. Shocked and embarressed, Storke immediately moves to a home away from this neighborhood.