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Coe, Alexis.
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Mitchell, Alice, active 19th century.
Ward, Freda, -1892.
Murder -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Lesbian couples -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion -- 19th century.
Teenage girls -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Trials (Murder) -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Coe, Alexis.
Mitchell, Alice, active 19th century.
Ward, Freda, -1892.
Murder -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Lesbian couples -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion -- 19th century.
Teenage girls -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Trials (Murder) -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Alice
+
Freda
forever
: a
murder
in
Memphis
/ Alexis Coe ; with illustrations by Sally Klann.
by
Coe, Alexis.
PULP, an imprint of Zest Books, [2014]
Call #:
306.766309 C672a
Subjects
Mitchell,
Alice
, active 19th century.
Ward,
Freda
, -1892.
Murder
-- Tennessee --
Memphis
-- History -- 19th century.
Lesbian couples -- Tennessee --
Memphis
-- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion -- 19th century.
Teenage girls -- Tennessee --
Memphis
-- Biography.
Trials (
Murder
) -- Tennessee --
Memphis
-- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis
(Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781936976607 (hc.)
1936976609 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Alice
plus
Freda
forever
: a
murder
in
Memphis
Alice
and
Freda
forever
: a
murder
in
Memphis
Alice
&
Freda
forever
: a
murder
in
Memphis
Description:
223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-199) and index.
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.
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.
Genre:
True crime.
Other authors:
Klann, Sally.
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