“Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story - My Fifteen Lost Years” is a 1905 memoir by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick (1862–1941), an American woman convicted in the United Kingdom of murdering her husband James Maybrick with arsenic, which she denied. In film director and writer, Bruce Robinson's 2015 work “They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper”, Robinson makes the claim that Florence's husband was in fact the victim of her brother-in-law, Michael, whom Robinson argues was Jack the Ripper based on 15 years of research. Contents include: “Before the Trial”, “The Trial”. “In Solitary Confinement”, “The Period of Probation”, “The Period of Hard Labor”, “At Aylesbury Prison”, “A Petition for Release”, “Religion in Prison Life”, “My Last Years in Prison”, “My Release”, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic memoir now in a brand new edition complete with the introductory essay “The Relations of Women to Crime” by Ely Van De Warker.

A true story of an American woman arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang for the murder of her British husband. In its day, it was one of the most sensational cases of the 19th century. Here, Florence Maybrick tells of the horror and devastation of being separated from her children, thrown into solitary confinement, and struggling to maintain sanity. For fifteen years she struggled to hang on and gained a remarkable set of supporters on both sides of the Atlantic, including Lincoln's former secretary (later Secretary of State) John Hay. Queen Victoria herself was apprised of the proceedings, as was U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Robert Todd Lincoln. Mrs. Maybrick relates the saga of her ordeal and her final emancipation. She made an eloquent and impassioned appeal for prison reform. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Mrs. Maybrick'S Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Chandler Maybrick, first published in 1905, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

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Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison--in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband. Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.