Forum Title: LIZZIE BORDEN SOCIETY
Topic Area: Stay to Tea
Topic Name: Lizzie sighting

1. "Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Stefani on Sep-15th-02 at 10:54 PM

Just finished Janet Evanovich's newest Stephanie Plum mystery Hard Eight. There it was, near the end of the book---a reference to "Lizzy Borden"! She spelled the name incorrectly, but it was there just the same. Lizzie IS EVERYWHERE!


2. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Susan on Sep-16th-02 at 11:48 AM
In response to Message #1.

It amazes me how many people here in California, and young ones at that, that know who Lizzie Borden is!  I thought that she was primarily an east coast phenomenon?  They even have most of the story correct to boot! 


3. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Kat on Sep-16th-02 at 7:00 PM
In response to Message #2.

Lizzie sighting in William Roughead's Classic Crimes, New York Review of Books (publisher), paperback, 2000.

Pg. 129
"To Meet Miss Madeleine Smith"

"...my friend and criminous colleague, Mr. Edmund Pearson...told in his first and most excellent book in this vein, "Studies In Murder", the attaching tale of the incomparable Lizzie Borden, a New England maiden, charged, in the nineties, with the unfilial massacre of her parents by means of an ax, and surprisingly acquitted by a sympathetic jury of her fellow-countrymen.  And in later works Mr. Pearson has returned to the "charge", and given us further aspects of his favorite heroine's personality and unique achievement, manifestly to his own delight and to the equal joy of such readers as share his admiration for the gentle Lizzie."


4. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Susan on Sep-16th-02 at 11:58 PM
In response to Message #3.

Simply amazing!  Lizzie just doesn't quit!  I wonder how she would have felt knowing the popularity or notoriety she has today? 


5. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Kat on Sep-29th-02 at 4:54 AM
In response to Message #4.

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6. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Susan on Sep-29th-02 at 1:58 PM
In response to Message #5.

Call me stupid, but, hunh? 


7. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Edisto on Sep-29th-02 at 2:33 PM
In response to Message #6.

Thank Heaven I'm not the only one who didn't "get it".  I thought I was losin' it.


8. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Kat on Sep-29th-02 at 10:32 PM
In response to Message #6.

I'm with you guys...


9. "Re: Lizzie sighting"
Posted by Susan on Sep-30th-02 at 2:33 AM
In response to Message #8.

What an unusual tie-in with Lizzie.  I guess everyone wants to claim her as their own?  I guess thanks is in order, Kat, for directing our attention to this "unusual" woman. 



 

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