When considering the famous Borden family menu, I have always wondered which was worse: eating the boiled mutton in any of its various incarnations or cooking it?
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Mary Elizabeth NaugleLizzie Borden and the Spinster Mystique
Lizzie Borden is typically described as a “spinster.” She lived in an era in which that was the normal, accepted term for an adult woman who had never married.
Denise NoeAngela Carter Peers Through the Bars of Lizzie’s Childhood
Angela Carter’s “Lizzie’s Tiger” is a shorter and simpler excursion into Lizzie lore than her masterpiece, “The Fall River Axe Murders.”
Eugene HoseyUnwomanly Weapons and the Women who Wield Them Part 3: Elizabeth Brownrigg, “It Was My Mistress’s Pleasure”
Elizabeth Brownrigg is proof that depraved and motiveless murder was not an invention of the twentieth century.
News and Views that Wouldn’t Fit: Notes from the Compositor’s Bench, August, 2006
Doug Walters takes a whimsical look at modern day from the perspective of a Victorian.
Doug WaltersThat’s What Friends are For or Who Needs Hollywood?
The living room proved a glamorous stand-in for the sitting room crime scene, with a door conveniently situated at the head of the sofa, thoughtfully positioned for optimum hatchet swinging angles.
Shelley DziedzicLizzie Borden’s South Main Street, 1896
At the corner of Bedford and South Main she at once recognized the Pocasset Bank sharing space with the Citizens Savings Bank at Number 6.
Neilson CaplainLizzie Borden Case Closed
Recent questions from new members of The Lizzie Borden Society Forum again brought up the possibility that her first name was really Elizabeth.
Cynthia AvilaGrowing up Along the Quequechan
By the 1950s and 60s, the Portuguese, who were still arriving in great numbers, had displaced most of the French.
Michael BrimbauDear Abby, April/May, 2006
Dear Abby is a humorous series that purports that people wrote into the Fall River newspaper and Abby Borden responded with sage advice—well, sometimes.
Sherry Chapman