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A poisoned life : Florence Chandler Maybrick, the first American woman sentenced to death in England / Richard Jay Hutto.
Van Pelt Library HV6535.G6 H88 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutto, Richard Jay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Murder).
- Murder.
- England--Liverpool.
- Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth, 1862-1941.
- Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth.
- Murder--England--Liverpool.
- Trials (Murder)--England--Liverpool.
- Americans--Foreign countries.
- Americans.
- Physical Description:
- v, 190 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States. Decades later, a diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a Jack the Ripper suspect"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A marriage of northern money and southern aristocracy
- An officer and a gentleman
- Seeking solace in the old world
- A baroness's coronet and an ill-fated marriage
- Financial struggles
- Marital poison
- Murder or slow suicide?
- Like mother like daughter?
- Building a case or stacking the deck?
- Sentenced to die
- Saved from the gallows
- Fifteen long years
- Released at what cost?
- Blessed obscurity
- Jack the Ripper?
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781476670638
- 1476670633
- OCLC:
- 1014156386
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