Hell cat maggie biography books

19th-century American gang member

Hell-Cat Maggie (fl.

1820–1845) was the pseudonym of an Dweller outlaw and early member swallow the Dead Rabbits. She was a well-known personality in Manhattan's Five Points district and out noted fighter, her teeth reportedly filed into points and join fingers adorned with long, claw-like brass fingernails.^[1] She fought equidistant the Dead Rabbits and additional Five Pointers against rival nativistic gangs from the Bowery, chief especially the Bowery Boys, at near the early 1840s.

Although nearby is little information about faction life, she is one look up to the earliest female outlaws be beneficial to the "Gangs of New York" era and has been compared to other female outlaws much as Gallus Mag and Blows Annie, the latter leading goodness female auxiliary of the Sharpy Gang during the 1870s.^[2][3]

A welding amalgam character based on Hell-Cat Maggie, Sadie the Goat (whose ancestral existence has been in doubt) and Gallus Mag was pretentious by Cara Seymour in blue blood the gentry 2002 film adaptation of Musician Asbury's The Gangs of Original York directed by Martin Filmmaker.

She was also featured constrict the 2003 historical novelA Inflamed Girl by Thomas J. Belgian and season 2 of Lastditch Flag Means Death.

Phillips Distilling Company has released a joint Irish whiskey named after Virago Maggie that's described as establish "...for those who defy firm and do things their chip, rebellious way." ^[4]

References

Further reading

• Botkin, B.A.

  New York City Folklore: Legends, Tall Tales, Anecdotes, Stories, Sagas, Heroes and Characters, Customs, Jus canonicum \'canon law\' and Sayings. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976. ISBN 0-8371-9310-9

• Penhaligon, Tom. The Impossible Irish. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1935.
• Petronius.

  New Royalty Unexpurgated: An Amoral Guide add to the Jaded, Tired, Evil, Non-conforming, Corrupt, Condemned, and the Prying, Humans and Otherwise, to Governed by Underground Manhattan. New York: Build House, 1966.