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Defying “Death at the Wheel”
The Unexpectedly Long Life and Far Reach of Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2021
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Some obsessions stay with you for a reason. On its surface, Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl; or, Death at the Wheel, a ludicrously named melodrama peopled with exaggerated heroines and villains, offers an example of the noncanonical, everyday fare that audiences consumed in playhouses throughout the 19th century. But the deeper I dug, the more questions I uncovered.
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