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Fanny McDermot

A poor, innocent young woman is seduced and abandoned by an older, wealthy man in New York City.

Tags: abandonment, class, gender roles, girls, Irish, morals, orphans, poverty, religion, seduction, The Tombs

The narrator, traveling in Italy, meets an English lady, who recounts the story of Mrs. Bathurst and her son Murray, a young antiquarian who goes mad while conducting research in Rome. He is eventually reunited with his mother and restored to sanity.…

Tags: 1845, antiquarian, antiquities, beggars, Cicero, Frascati, Graham's Magazine, India, Italy, madness, marriage, merchants, Mothers, pride, Roman Catholic, Rome, sons, Southey, sympathy, Tusculum, Wordsworth

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Fanny McDermot

An Incident at Rome