A Poisoned Life (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
196
Utgivningsdatum
2018-05-31
Förlag
McFarland & Co Inc
Medarbetare
, Richard Jay
Illustrationer
30 photographs
Dimensioner
221 x 150 x 15 mm
Vikt
236 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
402:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781476670638

A Poisoned Life

Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England

av Richard Jay Hutto
Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-05-31
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Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to die in England. Her trial was presided over by an openly misogynistic judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Only hours before Florence was scheduled to be hanged to death for murdering her husband (a crime she almost certainly did not commit), Queen Victoria reluctantly agreed that her execution be commuted to life in prison. In her opinion, a woman who would commit adultery, as Florence had admitted, would surely kill her husband. Her children were taken from her and she never saw them again. Florences mother worked at great cost for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and several successive ambassadors including Abraham Lincolns son. Decades later, long after both were dead, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Florences husband a prime suspect as Jack the Ripper.
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Rick Hutto does a great job of organizing a myriad of facts in this intriguing story of a celebrated miscarriage of justice, and he presents them masterfully as a compelling read."" - Mary S. Lovell, author of The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society ""A scrupulously detailed dissection of one of the most intriguing cases in British judicial historywith a surprising twist at the end."" - Anne de Courcy, author of The Viceroys Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters.

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Richard Jay Hutto served as White House Appointments Secretary to the Carter Family and was Chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts. He is an internationally recognized speaker and historical consultant often appearing in televised adaptations of his work. He lives in Macon, Georgia.

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