Lizzie Borden: American Story
A new children’s book is out that includes the Borden murders. The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong (Knopf, hardcover, 368 pages, $46.95) This is a book for kids, but most adults could brush up on their history, traditional and otherwise, by reading along. Subtitled “100 True Tales From American History,” it begins in 1565 with […]
Joe Carlson True Crime Writer Blog
UPDATE: Joe has changed his blog to wordpress and the link to his blog is here. Please leave a comment and bookmark! Visit it often, cuz I’ll update it almost every day. It is all you ever wanted to know about Parkman-Webster and garage sales at the Carlson home. True crime author and Hatchet contributor, […]
How to Speak 19th Century
Eric Ferguson works at a living history museum and in interested in language. To that end, he took a 19th Century book, Private Yankee Doodle, by Joseph Plumb Martin, edited by George F. Scheer (originally published in 1830, Little, Brown & Co, 1962. Eastern Acorn Press, 1988), and combed it for its vocabulary. He noted […]
Keepsakes: an online Lizzie/Emma play
A play by Kip Rosser about Lizzie and Emma was published on the web here. The play is titled Keepsakes, “Two researchers publishing a book about the Borden sisters, find themselves caught in a web of lies that reaches across time, while the aged Lizzie and Emma reunite in a struggle for sanity.” I read […]
Arnold Brown’s Senior Photo
Found this gem: Arnold Brown’s senior high school photo. He graduated from Durfee High School, in Fall River. Brown is the author of Lizzie Borden: the Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. You can find this book in the true crime section of your local library, but in my opinion, it should be located in […]
Shilling Shockers on DVD
On August 13, I posted on what I called “The BEST Lizzie Borden take off video I have ever seen!” Many have agreed with me. Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers produces quality work and I want to support them any way I can. I just got this email and wanted to share it with you: Hello […]
Fingerprints
Project Guttenberg has posted a copy of the FBI manual The Science of Fingerprints—Classification and Uses. The download is free. This booklet concerning the study of fingerprints has been prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the use of interested law enforcement officers and agencies, particularly those which may be contemplating the inauguration of […]
LizzieGator
Artist Noel Miller has produced a cute book titled Sophisticated Alligators: A Handbook of Reptilian Repartee (1995), in which she depicts famous people from history as alligators. As the dust jacket states, “Ms. Miller contends that each of us contains his or her own inner alligator — acknowledged or not.” I had ordered a copy […]
Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers
The BEST Lizzie Borden take off video I have ever seen! I showed it at my talk in Fall River and everybody loved it. Now you can love it too! Click here for news about Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers. What is so good about it, you ask? Well, for starters, Lizzie is finally in love. […]
Curse of Lizzie Borden Trailer
I posted here and here about this film, but Intrepid Reporter has found the trailer for the movie. The film went straight to video and is due to be released on the 28th of August. I have ordered my copy of The Curse of Lizzie Borden from Amazon.com and will offer up a review when […]
The August issue of The Hatchet is Online
One of the many Lizzie hats I wear is as the editor and publisher of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. Today marks the publication date of issue number 3 of 2006. The journal is an online magazine primarily and you can subscribe for a mere $20 a year. If you subscribe now, you […]
Lethal Imagination
According to the Emery University Violence Studies Newsletter, Fall 1999, a then new book was announced that appears to include an essay on Lizzie Borden. Says the newsletter: While helping to organize the Violence Studies Program two years ago, Professor Michael Bellesiles discovered that there was no general history of American violence. Encouraged by New […]
Passion of Lizzie Borden
The late poetess Ruth Whitman published a collection of poetry in 1973 and titled it The Passion of Lizzie Borden. It is a very nice book and since Lizzie is in the title, and one of the longer poems in the book is about Borden, it is a fine addition to any Lizzie Borden collection. […]
Liner notes for Fall River Legend
If you would like to read the liner notes for William Schuman: Undertow — Morton Gould: Fall River Legend, New World NW 253, then I found them for you online. Download the PDF of the liner notes here.
Lizzie in a Short Story?
Found this PDF on the web, linked to the Illinois Institute of Technology. Whaaa? I am so confused. The best I can tell, this document may be a review of some sort by the teacher of Lit 309 (her syllabus is also online). It seems to refer to a book of short stories by Daniel […]
Blood and Ink
The Kent State University Press has graciously posted several excepts of a 2002 book titled Blood and Ink, by Albert Borowitz. Of note is a partial introduction to the work in which the Lizzie Borden case is mentioned. From the website for the book: Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature†focusing on […]
Walt Satterthwait Speaks
On Walter Satterthwait’s site (author of the historical novel Miss Lizzie), he offers a reprint of an interview he gave to “Mystery News.” In it he briefly discusses his interest in the Borden case and how he solved it to his own satisfaction. Click on his home page and write him an email if you […]
Lizzie by Haskell
For sale on eBay right now is a great item: LIZZIE BORDEN A Play by Owen Haskell signed ltd. The opening bid of $24.95 is fair and you won’t regret this purchase—if you can grab it for under $50. It is funny and bright and full of surprising scenes and dialogue. Plus, this copy is […]