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"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 fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter--and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail--including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells). After a jury of 'the finest men in Memphis' declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later. Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes--painting a vivid picture of a sadly familiar world."--
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Murder, Trials (Murder), Lesbians, Lesbian couples, Biography, History, Murder, tennessee, SociologyPlaces
Memphis (Tenn.), Tennessee, MemphisTimes
19th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
2014, Lerner Publishing Group
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
2014, Lerner Publishing Group
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1936976617 9781936976614
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Alice + Freda forever: a murder in Memphis
2014, Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books
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1936976609 9781936976607
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