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The Quiet Daughter of Second Street: The Lizzie Borden Murders, the Trial That Shocked a Nation, and the Truth No One Could Prove
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ISBN13: 9798180232960
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE QUIET DAUGHTER OF SECOND STREET
The Lizzie Borden Murders, the Trial That Shocked a Nation, and the Truth No One Could Prove
By Oliver Patrick
On the morning of August 4th, 1892, two people were killed in a locked house on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. By nightfall the name Lizzie Borden had begun its long, unfinished journey into American legend.
The Lizzie Borden Murders, the Trial That Shocked a Nation, and the Truth No One Could Prove
By Oliver Patrick
On the morning of August 4th, 1892, two people were killed in a locked house on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. By nightfall the name Lizzie Borden had begun its long, unfinished journey into American legend.
Did Lizzie Borden really do it?
It is the question that has haunted the American imagination for more than a hundred and thirty years and it is the question at the heart of this gripping, meticulously researched work of Gilded Age true crime nonfiction.
In The Quiet Daughter of Second Street, author Oliver Patrick delivers the most complete and compelling account of the Lizzie Borden true story ever written from the suffocating tensions of the Borden household on the eve of the murders, through the forensic mysteries that have never been solved, to the Lizzie Borden trial evidence that a jury deliberated on for just one hour before returning its verdict.
Drawing on court transcripts, inquest testimony, contemporary newspaper coverage, and more than a century of serious scholarship, Patrick reconstructs the Lizzie Borden murders of 1892 in unprecedented dramatic and forensic detail and asks, with the rigor and honesty the case has always deserved, whether the most famous acquittee in American legal history was innocent, guilty, or simply never proved.
This is the Lizzie Borden book nonfiction readers have been waiting for.
Atmospheric, psychologically rich, and relentlessly gripping, The Quiet Daughter of Second Street takes readers inside the locked doors of the Borden household, into the packed courtroom where former Governor George Robinson deployed Lizzie's respectability as her most powerful defense, and into the long, isolated years at Maplecroft where the woman who walked free discovered that an acquittal and an ordinary life were not the same thing.
Set against the vivid backdrop of Fall River, Massachusetts at the height of the Gilded Age, a city of mill smoke and money, of rigid class divisions and suffocating social expectations, this is not merely the story of a crime. It is the story of a woman trapped by her era, a justice system shaped by wealth and gender, and a question that the evidence points toward without ever quite answering.
The case has never been closed.
The question has never been answered.
The truth no one could prove is waiting on Second Street.
It is the question that has haunted the American imagination for more than a hundred and thirty years and it is the question at the heart of this gripping, meticulously researched work of Gilded Age true crime nonfiction.
In The Quiet Daughter of Second Street, author Oliver Patrick delivers the most complete and compelling account of the Lizzie Borden true story ever written from the suffocating tensions of the Borden household on the eve of the murders, through the forensic mysteries that have never been solved, to the Lizzie Borden trial evidence that a jury deliberated on for just one hour before returning its verdict.
Drawing on court transcripts, inquest testimony, contemporary newspaper coverage, and more than a century of serious scholarship, Patrick reconstructs the Lizzie Borden murders of 1892 in unprecedented dramatic and forensic detail and asks, with the rigor and honesty the case has always deserved, whether the most famous acquittee in American legal history was innocent, guilty, or simply never proved.
This is the Lizzie Borden book nonfiction readers have been waiting for.
Atmospheric, psychologically rich, and relentlessly gripping, The Quiet Daughter of Second Street takes readers inside the locked doors of the Borden household, into the packed courtroom where former Governor George Robinson deployed Lizzie's respectability as her most powerful defense, and into the long, isolated years at Maplecroft where the woman who walked free discovered that an acquittal and an ordinary life were not the same thing.
Set against the vivid backdrop of Fall River, Massachusetts at the height of the Gilded Age, a city of mill smoke and money, of rigid class divisions and suffocating social expectations, this is not merely the story of a crime. It is the story of a woman trapped by her era, a justice system shaped by wealth and gender, and a question that the evidence points toward without ever quite answering.
The case has never been closed.
The question has never been answered.
The truth no one could prove is waiting on Second Street.
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