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Hanging Mary
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Author : Susan Higginbotham
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Hanging Mary written by Susan Higginbotham and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Fiction categories.
"This is my favorite kind of historical fiction: evocative, deeply moving, and meticulously researched."—Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count Meet Mary Surratt, the woman who could have saved Lincoln. Find out what stopped her in this vivid reimagining of Lincoln's assassination. 1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. Surratt. A widow who runs a small boardinghouse on H Street, Mary Surratt isn't half as committed to the cause as her son, Johnny. If he's not delivering messages or escorting veiled spies, he's invited home men like John Wilkes Booth, the actor who is even more charming in person than he is on the stage. But when President Lincoln is killed, the question of what Mary knew becomes more important than anything else. Was she a cold-blooded accomplice? Just how far would she go to help her son? Based on the true case of Mary Surratt, Hanging Mary reveals the untold story of those on the other side of the assassin's gun.
The Hanging Of Mary Ann
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Author : Angela Badger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Hanging Of Mary Ann written by Angela Badger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Hanging categories.
The Hanging Of Mary Ann
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Author : Angela Badger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Hanging Of Mary Ann written by Angela Badger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Australian fiction categories.
A gripping story of power, deceit and passion, this historical reconstruction is based on events from 1855 in colonial Australia concerning Mary Ann Guise whose case is said to have brought about the Married Women's Property Act. She was the last woman to be hanged in New South Wales. When Mary Ann inherited her family's property, her husband soon began selling off portions of the land without her consent. Not only did he cheat her of her birthright, he then wanted to bring his 'fancy' woman to live there. Driven by desperation, Mary Ann fought with him and cut him with a knife. The wound turned septic and he died. Mary Ann was hauled off to Goulburn Gaol and branded a murderer. However, when she was found to be pregnant the authorities decided to wait until the baby was born before sentencing her to hang. Her real crime through all this was being born a woman in a man's world...This is 'faction' - reconstructed real historical events mixed with imagined dialogue.
The First Forensic Hanging
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Author : Summer Strevens
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2018-09-30
The First Forensic Hanging written by Summer Strevens and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Social Science categories.
‘For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press. Opinions are certainly still divided on the matter of Mary’s ‘intention’ in the poisoning of her father, and the extent to which her coercive lover, Captain William Cranstoun, was responsible for this murder by proxy. Yet Mary Blandy’s trial was also notable in that it was the first time that detailed medical evidence had been presented in a court of law on a charge of murder by poisoning, and the first time that any court had accepted toxicological evidence in an arsenic poisoning case. The forensic legacy of the acceptance of Dr Anthony Addington’s application of chemistry to a criminal investigation is another compelling aspect of The First Forensic Hanging.
Mary Dyer
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Author : Ruth Talbot Plimpton
language : en
Publisher: Branden Books
Release Date : 1994
Mary Dyer written by Ruth Talbot Plimpton and has been published by Branden Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the history of Mary Dyer (1611--1660) whose efforts to seek and find 'freedom to worship' led eventually to her death. Her quest began when she and her husband sailed from 'Old' to 'New' England in 1635. They were soon disillusioned by the intolerant practices and beliefs of the Puritans, who considered all truth could be found in the Old Testament -- and only there. Variations, from Puritan interpretations of the Ten Commandments, were punished by cruel torture and/or death. Banished from Boston for protesting such rigidity in belief and practice, Mary was among the group who founded Rhodes Island, where freedom in belief and practice of worship was established.
The Defiance Of Mary Ball
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Author : Robert Muscutt
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Books
Release Date : 2011
The Defiance Of Mary Ball written by Robert Muscutt and has been published by Anchor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
Based on the true story of the last woman to be publicly hanged in Warwickshire, England in 1849, the novel dramatises the struggle of Mary Ball, a working-class woman trapped in a loveless marriage, to determine her life. The upheaval and the realities of life in the mid-nineteenth century English Midlands provide an absorbing background for a vivid portrayal of one woman's defiance. A direct descendant of Mary Ball, the author weaves authentic historical detail with a compelling story and convincing characterisation to create an extraordinarily thoughtful and moving novel.
The Life Trial And Hanging Of Mary Ball
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Author : Robert James Muscutt
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Books
Release Date : 2011
The Life Trial And Hanging Of Mary Ball written by Robert James Muscutt and has been published by Anchor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Full factual, detailed account of the life, trial and hanging of Mary Ball who, after an enthralling but unsuccessful official plea for mercy, was hanged for the murder of her husband Thomas in Coventry, 1849. Drawing on a great range of authentic and partly previously unpublished documentation, this gripping true story conveys a strong sense of what it was like for a working-class woman to grow up in the mid-nineteenth century Midlands, UK and what drove this particular woman, the author's great, great grandmother, to take the desperate step which caused her to become the last woman to be publicly hanged in front of around 20,000 spectators, in Wawickshire. Highly readable, informative and fascinating for readers interested in local history and in daily life in Victorian provincial England.
A Study Guide For Margaret Atwood S Half Hanged Mary
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
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A Study Guide For Margaret Atwood S Half Hanged Mary written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
Hanging Without A Rope
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Author : Mary Margaret Steedly
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Hanging Without A Rope written by Mary Margaret Steedly and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they described as "hanging without a rope," in Indonesia's state-proclaimed Age of Development. Based on the author's three years of fieldwork in urban and rural Karoland, this engaging and sympathetic account focuses on issues of experience, memory, and narrative plausibility. Steedly approaches mediums' stories not simply as reservoirs of information about "what happened" at a particular moment, but as interested efforts to map a pathway across the shifting landscape of historical memory. Over the past century Karoland has been the scene of colonial conquest, Christian conversion, commercial agricultural development, military occupation, reolution, migration, and modernization. Storeis of spirit encounters, Steedly argues, provide an alternative, "unofficial" perspective on the historical transformation of the Karo social world. In addition to her rich ethnographic material, she draws on feminist theories of subjectivity, William Faulkner's reconstructions of personal and collective memory, and current anthropological explorations of the politics of representation to open the ethnographic imagination to historical eventfulness. Mary Margaret Steedly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Daniel And Mary
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Author : Alfred Arundel May
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010
Daniel And Mary written by Alfred Arundel May and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Manuscript originally written in 1955 but not previously published.