Lizzie Borden on Trial : Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender /

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"This is a retelling of the famous story of Lizzie Borden, charged with killing her father and stepmother with "forty whacks" of a hatchet. Conforti describes the crime, the investigation, and the trial that resulted in her acquittal. He places the trial in the context of the social a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conforti, Joseph A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Borden, Lizzie, > 1860-1927.
Borden, Lizzie, > 1860-1927 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Women > Social conditions.
Trials (Murder)
Trials.
Murder > Investigation.
Murder.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Femmes > Massachusetts > Fall River > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Meurtre > Enquêtes > Massachusetts > Fall River.
Meurtre > Massachusetts > Fall River.
Proces (Meurtre) > Massachusetts > New Bedford.
Women > Massachusetts > Fall River > Social conditions > 19th century.
Murder > Investigation > Massachusetts > Fall River.
Murder > Massachusetts > Fall River.
Trials (Murder) > Massachusetts > New Bedford.
Massachusetts > New Bedford.
Massachusetts > Fall River.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Setting: The Bordens of Fall River
  • 2. The Bordens of Second Street
  • 3. The Crime Heard 'round the Country and Beyond
  • 4. The Investigation
  • 5. Arrest
  • 6. "Probably Guilty"
  • 7. Lizzie's Long Wait
  • 8. Prosecuting Lizzie
  • 9. The Court's Heavy Hand
  • 10. Defending Lizzie
  • 11. Verdict.

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