Lizzie under the tree

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:01 am

First off, I Hope everyone hear had a Merry Christmas!

The first 2 gifts I opened yesterday afternoon were Lizzie books!!

" Lizzie Didn't Do It" and " Yesterday In Fall River: A Lizzie Borden
Companion"

This will make for good reading :)

I flipped through one of them and saw a picture of Adelaide C. I have never seen before. It was circa 1880, She was about 30 years old
and looked fairly attractive compared to the other one I saw which was taken a few years after.

Happy New Year!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:21 pm

Yes she doesn't look too much like her later photo, does she?
Only the eyes.

I too received some Lizzie Borden material and posted a snippet under Miscellanea.

Thanks Stuart!

Anyone else have a "Borden" Christmas?

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:40 pm

Let me know if the book "Yesterday in Fall River a Lizzie Borden companion" is any good. I'd love to get it if it is anygood.
I too got Lizzie gifts. Don't know where my parents got it but I got a Lizzie Borden mouse pad. Now I can look at lizzie all the time.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:32 am

I will let you know how it is. It's a fairly long book. It appears it goes into detail about everybody that had something to do with the case.
I flipped through it to check some of the pictures and I saw some pictures
that I never saw before.

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:46 pm

Jeff,

You might like the book "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" Pearson edition. Also, don't know if you have it, but "The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook" It's really neat to read all the articles that were written at the time the crime was committed.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:20 pm

Snokkums,

I would like to read "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" I hear it's a good book.

I have the source book. I really like reading through those old newspaper articles. I really liked the photo of Charles C. Cook standing over Lizzie's grave! Ironically, he is buried not too far from the Borden plot

RayS · Post by **RayS** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:54 pm

Jeff @ Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:20 pm wrote:...
I would like to read "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" I hear it's a good book.
...

Edmund Pearson's 1935 "Trial of Lizzie Borden" was popular in its day, but was declared a "literary hoax" by famed reporter Edward Radin in his 1961 book, which tried to rehabilitate Lizzie's reputation. There was a 1963? edition w/ Gerald Gross' essay that tried to split the guilt.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:10 pm

Pearson's Trial was first published in 1937.

The other book referred to is:
Gross, Gerald. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Lester Pearson True Crime Reader, with a chapter titled "The Pearson-Radin Controversy Over the Guilt of Lizzie Borden." Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963.

If anyone is looking for a reference date, or title- try the Bibliography at the website:
http://lizzieandrewborden.com/Resources ... hyCase.htm