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Pucci, Idanna, 1945- author.
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Barbella, Maria.
Brazzà, Countess di, 1862-
Crimes of passion -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Capital punishment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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The lady of Sing Sin...
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The lady of Sing Sing : an American countess, an Italian immigrant, and their epic battle for justice in New York's Gilded Age / Idanna Pucci.
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Pucci, Idanna, 1945- author.
New York : Tiller Press, 2020.
Subjects
Barbella, Maria.
Brazzà, Countess di, 1862-
Crimes of passion -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Capital punishment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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9781982139315 (hardcover) :
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xxii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
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"In 1895, an Italian seamstress in New York was accused of killing the man who had raped her, promised to marry her, and was about to abandon her. Following a sensational trial conducted in a language she could not understand, Maria Barbella, at the age of twenty-two, became the first woman sentenced to die in the newly invented electric chair. Idanna Pucci tells this story with immediacy, passion and authority that no other author could have mustered, since Pucci is the great-granddaughter of Cora Slocomb, the American-born Italian aristocrat whose ingenious advocacy saved Maria's life. The result is not only a crime story with all the fury and pathos of classic opera, but a perceptive study of an earlier generation's attitudes toward immigrants, capital punishment, and a woman's right to reject the role of victim"--
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364.1523 Pu
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