The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook

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The Borden murders of a century ago in Fall River, Massachusetts, captured the imagination of the world as had the Jack the Ripper murders a couple of years earlier in London’s West End. Beginning the following year, book after book seemed available on the market, every stressing the bias of the creator or nominating another candidate for the role of villain. Until this sourcebook, no one has been content to present the chronicling of events as they unfolded and leave the verdict to the reader. Here you’ll find reproductions of 41 newspapers, from Fall River to New Orleans to San Francisco, official correspondence and transcripts, in addition to information on the plays, opera and ballet inspired by the legendary crimes. Lizzie Borden is an authentic legend, as much part of Americana as Johnny Appleseed or Billy the Kid. She will remain so, ceaselessly condemned by many as guilty of the murders of her father and stepmother though pronounced innocent by a jury of her peers. Welcome to the unsolvable mystery! Welcome to the second one hundred years!

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