Ellen Irving, the Female Victimizer, who Cruelly Murdered Sixteen Persons in Cool Blood, for Revenge on Her First Love, William Shannon, who Had Betrayed Her
Title | Ellen Irving, the Female Victimizer, who Cruelly Murdered Sixteen Persons in Cool Blood, for Revenge on Her First Love, William Shannon, who Had Betrayed Her PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Irving (Fictitious character) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Murder |
ISBN |
Women Who Kill
Title | Women Who Kill PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Jones |
Publisher | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 575 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1558616527 |
This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem). Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women and our culture. She considers notorious cases such as axe-murderer Lizzie Borden, acquitted of killing her parents; Belle Gunness, the Indiana housewife turned serial killer; Ruth Snyder, the “adulteress” electrocuted for murdering her husband; and Jean Harris, convicted of shooting her lover, the famous “Scarsdale Diet doctor.” Looking beyond sensationalized figures, Jones uncovers different trends of female criminality through American history—trends that reveal the evolving forms of oppression and abuse in our culture. From the prevalence of infanticide in colonial days to the poisoning of husbands in the nineteenth century and the battered wives who fight back today, Jones recounts the tales of dozens of women whose stories, and reasons, would otherwise be lost to history. First published in 1980, Women Who Kill is a “provocative book” that “reminds us again that women are entitled to their rage.” This 30th anniversary edition from Feminist Press includes a new introduction by the author (New York Times Book Review).
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sara L. Crosby |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2018-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319964631 |
This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith.
The Princeton University Library Chronicle
Title | The Princeton University Library Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 634 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Title | Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
ISBN |
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
ISBN |
The Cask of Amontillado
Title | The Cask of Amontillado PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | The Creative Company |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781583415801 |
After enduring many injuries of the noble Fortunato, Montressor executes the perfect revenge.