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A Poisoned Life
- Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England
Engelsk Paperback
A Poisoned Life
- Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
196
ISBN-13:
9781476670638
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476670633
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2018
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
254mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2018
Forfatter(e):
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