Author: Andrew Jackson MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair
Author: Andrew Jackson MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair
Author: Laura D. FairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the Murder of Alex. P. Crittenden: Including the Testimony, the Arguments of Counsel, and the Charge of the Court, Reported Verbatim, and the Entire Correspondence of the Parties, with Portraits of the D
Author: Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the Murder of Alex P. Crittenden, Including the Testimony, the Arguments of Counsel, and the Charge of the Court, Reported Verbatim, and the Entire Correspondence of the Parties, with Portraits of the De
Author: Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair
Author: Laura D. FairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the Murder of Alex P. Crittenden, Including the Testimony, the Arguments of Counsel, and the Charge of the Court, Reported Verbatim, and the Entire Correspondence of the Parties, with Portraits of the Defe
Author: Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the Murder of Alex. P. Crittenden
Author: Andrew Jackson MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Official Report of the Trial of L. D. F. for the Murder of A. P. Crittenden, Etc
Author: Laura D. FairAccount of Trial of Laura D. Fair for Murder of A.P. Crittenden
Author: Laura D. FairThe Trials of Laura Fair
Author: Carole HaberPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960759X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.