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A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England
Contributor(s): Hutto, Richard Jay (Author)

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 ISBN: 1476670633     ISBN-13: 9781476670638
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder - General
- History | Women
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 364.152
LCCN: 2018019354
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" L (0.52 lbs) 196 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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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 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison--in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband. Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.
 
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