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Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven

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The attorney Virginia A. McConnell provides a riveting view of Connecticut within the overdue 1800s as revealed throughout the unrelated but disturbingly identical murders of two young women. The primary, Mary Stannard, was once an unmarried mother who worked as a domestic and believed herself to be pregnant for a second time. The person accused of her murder, Reverend Herbert Hayden, was once a married lay minister whose seduction of Mary was once common knowledge. Three years later, Jennie Cramer, any other woman of low social status, was once found floating facedown in Long Island Sound off West Haven. The characters involved within the commission, investigation, and prosecution of those crimes emerge as vibrant individuals, and their stories make clear many aspects of the Victorian world: sex and marriage; drugs, from arsenic to aphrodisiacs; forensic medicine; and courtroom procedures.

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