An evil hunchbacked Jew named Gabriel Van Gelt swindles the underbelly of this city in a novel named for a brothel run by the pimp "Devil-Bug."
An evil hunchbacked Jew named Gabriel Van Gelt swindles the underbelly of this city in a novel named for a brothel run by the pimp "Devil-Bug." The lawyer "Slippery George" Stevens incites a race riot in this city in a novel by Frank J. Webb. The title character of a novel set in this city finds $20,000 in an Italian manuscript that he appropriated for his friend Wellbeck and falls in love with Eliza Hadwin. George Lippard's melodrama The Monks of Monk Hall is set in this city, whose pre-Civil War free (*) black community is the subject of The Garies and Their Friends. In a memoir mostly set in this city, the narrator recalls establishing one of its hospitals with Dr. Thomas Bond and founding the Junto club. While living in this city, the author of that memoir recounts inventing a stove and refusing a patent for it. Charles Brockden Brown's novel Arthur Mervyn is set during this city's 1793 yellow fever epidemic. For 10 points, name this American city, the setting of much of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
An evil hunchbacked Jew named Gabriel Van Gelt swindles the underbelly of this city in a novel named for a brothel run by the pimp "Devil-Bug."
Philadelphia