The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Death at the Door [for the Saturday Press]

Gill, Alice. "Death at the Door [for the Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, February 18, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

A distraught and wronged woman cries in the pouring rain outside of a church. She dies on the front steps because no one in the church answers her cries for shelter.