The Doggerel Discovered
You know it. You have heard it a million times. Yes, that little ditty. Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her father forty whacks When she saw what she has done She gave her father forty-one Lizzie Borden enthusiasts and historians have attempted to track this doggerel to its origins, with little success—until now. Previous […]
New Lizzie Borden fiction
A new work of fiction on the Lizzie Borden case will be published in August of this year, titled She What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt, and it is getting some pre-press praise. A recent story in The Guardian touts this debut novel as an “historical fiction highlight.” According the the book’s description on Amazon.com: […]
Has Rebecca Pittman Solved the Lizzie Borden Case?
A new book released in December of 2016, The History and Haunting of Lizzie Borden, by Rebecca Pittman, purports to have solved the Lizzie Borden murder mystery. I am still in the reading process of this tome (915 pages), and find it interesting and thorough in its attempt to leave no stone unturned—so I cannot comment […]