By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026
Why do recovering Zulma Marache, her life, and her "Memoir" of seduction and abortion matter? Because they change the stories we did not know we were telling.
By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026
Primary and secondary resource suggestions for those interested in Zulma Marache, abortion, seduction, and female physicians Madame Restell and Madame Costello.
Copy of Critical Introduction to the “Memoir”
By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026
The “Memoir of Zulma Marache”
Critical Edition of the “Memoir of Zulma Marache”
By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026
This Critical Introduction to this 1844 memoir of seduction and abortion considers questions of its origins, authenticity, and authorship and its publication in the New York Herald.
By Nicole C. Livengood, April 2026
The Editor's Note foregrounds decisions I made as I prepared the "Memoir" for twenty-first century readers.
By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026; updated May 13, 2026
An educators' guide for ways to incorporate Zulma Marache and the "Memoir" into undergraduate and graduate classrooms.
“Memoir of Zulma Marache" Timeline of Events
TImeline that follows Marache from 1842 to 1844, the years between her seduction and abortion and the publication of her first-person account of her experience in the New York Herald.
The Life of Zulma Marache Basney
By Nicole C. Livengood, March 2026
Biographical recovery of Zulma Marach's life including the legal and cultural circumstances informing her lawsuit against her fiancé for breach of promise, her testimony in the March 1844 abortion case, the People v. Catharine Costello, alias Maxwell, et al., and the life that she built as a wife and mother in the years after she disappeared from the headlines.
Footnoted edition of the 1844 "Memoir of Zulma Marache," a first-person account of a woman's experience with seduction and abortion published in New York Herald.