The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, Elaine Forman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arnold, Mary, 1702-1769.

Arnold, Mary.

Arnold, Benedict, 1683-1739.

Arnold, Benedict.

Poisoning--Rhode Island--Newport--History--18th century--Case studies.

Poisoning.

Adultery--Rhode Island--Newport--History--18th century--Case studies.

Adultery.

History.

Newport (R.I.)--Social conditions--18th century.

Newport (R.I.).

Rhode Island--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Rhode Island.

Rhode Island--Newport.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A town on Narragansett Bay

The people

Mary's tale

Benedict's tale

The physicians' tale

The apothecary's tale

Age

Adultery

Arsenic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Crane, Elaine Forman. Poison plot.

ISBN:

9781501721311

1501721313

OCLC:

1008773226