Bridget Gorman chose to live her Victorian life against the grain of society; but despite odds, she was admired, even revered, in NYC Chinatown. At her death, she was honored as a woman of high moral character by all walks of life. — A Very Rough Neighborhood In 1895, an infamous beauty known as Bridget Gorman was burned to death at a party by one of her trusted friends, but the resonance of the story reaches miles deeper to tell a tale that only today we could view with clarity.