NEW edition Paperback of Knowlton Papers!!

[Stefani]

I've been working on this project for the Fall River Historical Society for a couple of months. Lots of down time, don't you know.

And now we are pleased to announce its publication! Originally published in 1992 in limited hardcover release.

On sale now! A paperback reprint edition of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Lizzie A. Borden: The Knowlton Papers, 1892-1893. Edited by Michael Martins and Dennis A. Binette.

Paperback, 554 pages, $27.95 Purchase through the Society: https://lizzieborden.org/FRHSPress/

In 1892, Lizzie Andrew Borden was accused of the brutal August 4 murders of her father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and her step­-mother, Abby Durfee (Gray) Borden. Vindicated by due process of the charges brought against her, Miss Borden returned to Fall River, Massachusetts, only to face the life sentence inflicted upon her by her contemporaries, that of being ostracized. Prosecuting attorney Hosea Morrill Knowlton gladly relinquished his position in the public eye, pro­ceeding with a career which was to bring him numerous successes in the final decade of his life.

Interestingly, with the plethora of paperwork that can accumulate in a lifetime, the only legal file retained by Attorney Knowlton was that of his most famous case, a case that was not ruled in his favor.

This book was the first collection of primary source material to ever appear in print on the Borden case, and was published to wide acclaim.

From the Fall River Historical Society Press.

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