Alice + Freda forever a murder in Memphis
"In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fianceĢe Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, th...
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San Francisco, CA :
Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Girl slays girl. I don't care if I'm hung! ; The great drama ; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin J. Ward ; Price the pistols ; I thought you were a lady ; You told and I did too
- A most shocking crime. Erotomania ; Maiden purity ; Delicate hands, horrible deed ; Attendance even greater than opening day ; Quite a flirt ; Fair Lillie ; The old thread-bare lie
- Lunacy. The hypothetical case ; Vicarious menstruation ; An impossible idea ; Her own best witness
- The last of Alice Mitchell. That story was never printed.
