The Resource The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story, Cara Robertson
The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story, Cara Robertson
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- Summary
- "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. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. 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. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone--rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople--had an opinion about Lizzie Borden's guilt or innocence. 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. 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. 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. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 375 pages
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Contents
-
- Somebody will do something
- An incredible crime
- The web tightens
- A most remarkable woman
- The curtain ascends
- Under fire
- A signal victory
- Intent, deliberation, and preparation
- Short, busy, and very important
- Last words in the great trial
- The old place
- The enduring enigma
- Coda: the defense file
- Isbn
- 9781501168376
- Label
- The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story
- Title
- The trial of Lizzie Borden
- Title remainder
- a true story
- Statement of responsibility
- Cara Robertson
- Subject
-
- Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927
- Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- History
- Massachusetts -- New Bedford
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- 1800-1899
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts | New Bedford -- History -- 19th century
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. 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. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone--rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople--had an opinion about Lizzie Borden's guilt or innocence. 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. 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. 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. 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Robertson, Cara
- Dewey number
- 345.744/02523
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF223.B6
- LC item number
- R63 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Borden, Lizzie
- Borden, Lizzie
- Trials (Murder)
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Massachusetts
- Label
- The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story, Cara Robertson
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Somebody will do something -- An incredible crime -- The web tightens -- A most remarkable woman -- The curtain ascends -- Under fire -- A signal victory -- Intent, deliberation, and preparation -- Short, busy, and very important -- Last words in the great trial -- The old place -- The enduring enigma -- Coda: the defense file
- Control code
- on1050144059
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 375 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501168376
- Lccn
- 2018037560
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1050144059
- Label
- The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story, Cara Robertson
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Somebody will do something -- An incredible crime -- The web tightens -- A most remarkable woman -- The curtain ascends -- Under fire -- A signal victory -- Intent, deliberation, and preparation -- Short, busy, and very important -- Last words in the great trial -- The old place -- The enduring enigma -- Coda: the defense file
- Control code
- on1050144059
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 375 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501168376
- Lccn
- 2018037560
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1050144059
Subject
- Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927
- Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- History
- Massachusetts -- New Bedford
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- 1800-1899
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts | New Bedford -- History -- 19th century
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
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