The Mary Ellen Wilson Child Abuse Case and the Beginning of Childen's Rights in 19th Century America by Eric A Shelman

The Mary Ellen Wilson Child Abuse Case and the Beginning of Childen's Rights in 19th Century America by Eric A Shelman

As recently as 1874, no laws yet existed in the US for the protection of children. It was the widely publicized case of Mary Ellen Wilson that was the first to draw national and worldwide attention to both the social issue of child abuse and to the notion that children are entitled to humane treatment.

Eric A.Shelman was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1960. His widowed mother remarried a guy called Ed Middleton when he was in his early teens, and his new father relocated the family to southern California. Eric liked to create short novels with all of his pals as characters, but given that he was a longhair living in Laguna Beach, California in the 1970s, you can bet they incorporated drugs. Let's fast ahead... up till the mid-nineties

Eric began writing short stories, and one of them was eventually published. He decided it was time to write a book after that. Originally, he planned to write spooky fiction in the vein of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, among others. But when he came into the story of a small battered girl who was saved by the ASPCA in 1874, he got sidetracked and wrote Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson, the first book on her case.

It was published in 1999, and thousands of people have read it since then, making it one of his best-selling works. It's also been optioned for a big screen adaptation. He then wrote and shelved a thriller titled A Reason to Kill. Eric started narrative a witch novel about past lives, but he got so lost in the writing that he stopped after 53,000 words and didn't write again for eleven years.

Well, that was a blunder. Eric has written and published eleven full-length novels since 2011. Time travel, zombies, witches, and serial killers are all featured in this book. There's something for everybody...

That is, everyone is warped.

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ISBN 13	9780786420391
ISBN 10	0786420391
Title	The Mary Ellen Wilson Child Abuse Case and the Beginning of Childen's Rights in 19th Century America
Author	Eric A Shelman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McFarland & Co Inc
Year published	2005-01-01
Number of pages	200
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