Description The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the Trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.
Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties..
In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden\'s culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom.
Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment.
Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn\'t she? The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years.
Everyone--rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople--had an opinion about Lizzie Borden\'s guilt or innocence.
The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence.
Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom.
Reporters flocked to the scene.
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple\'s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her Trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history.
The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history.
Description The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the Trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence
