New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised history of New York City in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. Katha Pollitt states that the author "brings 19th c NY's working women out of the shadows and reveals them as neither passive dependents of men nor pathetic objects of charity and reform but as bold and spirited individuals ..struggling.. A brilliant and original book."