Alice + Freda Forever : A Murder in Memphis EPUB

Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance."-BustleIn 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation-it was her motivation.

Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancee Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again.

Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice.

Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter-and her father's razor soon went missing.

On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancee's throat.

Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion.

As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail-including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B.

Wells). After a jury of "the finest men in Memphis" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.

Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes.