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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Coe, Alexis, author.     Subjects     Mitchell, Alice, active 19th century.     Ward, Freda, -1892.     Murder -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.     Lesbian couples -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.     Trials (Murder) -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.     Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Coe, Alexis, author.       by title:      Alice + Freda foreve...         MARC Display

Alice + Freda forever : a murder in Memphis / Alexis Coe ; with illustrations by Sally Klann. by Coe, Alexis, author. San Francisco, CA : Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books, c2014. Subjects Mitchell, Alice, active 19th century.   Ward, Freda, -1892.   Murder -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.   Lesbian couples -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.   Trials (Murder) -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.   Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781936976607 : Description:  223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."--Publisher's website.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 306.7663 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.7663 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.7663 Coe Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.7663 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.7663 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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