Alice + Freda Forever : A Murder in Memphis Hardback
by Alexis Coe
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In 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 fiance 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-fiance'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+ Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes - painting a vivid picture of a sadly familiar world.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 100 b-w photos
- Publisher:Orange Avenue Publishing
- Publication Date:07/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781936976607
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 100 b-w photos
- Publisher:Orange Avenue Publishing
- Publication Date:07/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781936976607