Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Lizzie Borden
Standard Name: Borden, Lizzie
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A balancing joy to FHB
was her relationship with Elizabeth Jordan
, a successful journalist and committed feminist, strong, talented, and independent. |
| Publishing | Angela Carter | AC
's short story Mise-en-Scène for a Parricide, about the notorious murderess Lizzie Borden
, appeared in the London Review of Books. (Carter assumes Borden's guilt, though she was acquitted at her trial.) Carter, Angela. “Mise-en-Scène for a Parricide”. London Review of Books, Vol. 3 , No. 16, 3 Sept. 1981, pp. 21-4. |
| Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
published a murder novel based on an actual case which happened in 1892 in the USA: Lizzie Borden
: A Study in Conjecture. Carew, Dudley. “Other New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1983, 3 Feb. 1940, p. 61. 61 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Angela Carter | Black Venus re-interprets actual women of history whose public image has been demonized, like Lizzie Borden
the alleged of murderess and Jeanne Duval
(a mixed-race woman who suffered from syphilis, mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire |
Timeline
June 1893: Lizzie Borden went on trial in the United...
National or international item
June 1893
Lizzie Borden
went on trial in the United States for the 1892 axe-murder of her father and step-mother.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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