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Poisonous Muse
Sara L. Crosby
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Description for Poisonous Muse
Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands with gleeful abandon. That story, however, is only half true. While British authorities did indeed round up and execute a number of impoverished women with minimal evidence and fomented media hysteria, American juries refused to convict suspected women and newspapers laughed at men who feared them.
This difference in outcome doesn’t mean that poisonous women didn’t preoccupy Americans. In the decades following Andrew Jackson’s first presidential bid, Americans buzzed over ... Read more
The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands with gleeful abandon. That story, however, is only half true. While British authorities did indeed round up and execute a number of impoverished women with minimal evidence and fomented media hysteria, American juries refused to convict suspected women and newspapers laughed at men who feared them.
This difference in outcome doesn’t mean that poisonous women didn’t preoccupy Americans. In the decades following Andrew Jackson’s first presidential bid, Americans buzzed over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609384036
SKU
V9781609384036
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About Sara L. Crosby
Sara L. Crosby is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University at Marion, USA and a former NEH Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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