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The trial of Lizzie Borden, a true story, Cara Robertson

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The trial of Lizzie Borden, a true story, Cara Robertson
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eng
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biography
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The trial of Lizzie Borden
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1084687401
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Cara Robertson
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a true story
Summary
Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden's culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, Robertson offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties
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adult
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