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A Poisoned Life - Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England (Paperback)
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A Poisoned Life - Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England (Paperback)
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Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to
die in England. Her trial was presided over by an openly
misogynistic judge who was later declared incompetent and died in
an asylum. Only hours before Florence was scheduled to be hanged to
death for murdering her husband (a crime she almost certainly did
not commit), Queen Victoria reluctantly agreed that her execution
be commuted to life in prison. In her opinion, a woman who would
commit adultery, as Florence had admitted, would surely kill her
husband. Her children were taken from her and she never saw them
again. Florence's mother worked at great cost for years to clear
her name, enlisting the president of the United States and several
successive ambassadors including Abraham Lincoln's son. Decades
later, long after both were dead, a gruesome diary was discovered
that made Florence's husband a prime suspect as Jack the Ripper.
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