@book{179,
  keywords = {boarding houses, industrialists, steel industry},
  author = {Robert Ullin},
  title = {Besides, the Wench Is Dead},
  abstract = {Follows a group of Bohemians—the post-World War I Lost Generation—living together in a sleazy boarding house, who become entangled with the magnates and industrialists of the Steel City. },
  year = {1935},
  pages = {302 p.},
  publisher = {Doubleday, Doran & Company},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Robert Ullin is pseudonym of Beatrice Allender McFee (1899-1952).

The title is a catch-phrase repeated by one of the characters and is borrowed from Christopher Marlowe’s famous play <em>The Jew of Malta</em> (1590), in which Barabas the Jew confesses his sins to two friars, saying, “But that was is another country; and besides, the wench is dead.”},
  language = {English},
}