Dressing up as Lizzie Borden for Halloween?
The Victorian Trading Company has several wonderful Halloween costumes for sale. One of them is Lizzie Borden. Only $149.95, and it includes the axe! Lizzie Borden Costume This notoriously wicked woman is accessorized with the weapon that wiped out her unfortunate family in forty whacks. Includes: Authentic Victorian day dress in a mustard print featuring […]
Miss Lizzie Borden Invites You to Tea in NJ
Marjorie Conn’s one woman show Miss Lizzie Invites You to Tea is being presented in Fair Lawn, NJ this October, starring Karen Asconi. The press release is below. This sounds wonderful! Wish I could go. Buy Tickets here. (FAIR LAWN, NJ) — Boz and the Bard Productions, Inc. presents “Miss Lizzie” at the Fair Lawn […]
Nance O’Neil Photos Found Online
The NYPL has very recently updated their digital image collection online and lo and behold added quite a few photographs of actress Nance O’Neil, famous friend of Lizbeth Borden. There are 24 images and they were found by Kat Koorey as she searched for interesting images related tangentially to the case. She is posting half […]
Flickr Search of Lizzie Borden
There is a way kewl search engine for Flickr photos. You enter a search term and it brings up in a visual paging all the images tagged with the word or phrase. If you click on an image it appears in a separate page. If you want to see it closer, click again and you […]
Lizzie Borden Tattoo — Ouch!
Woweezoweee! From WooIsMe on Flickr. Link. Per the request of WooIsMe, I have removed the image of the tattoo. It was a fabulous tattoo, by the way! (November 23, 2008 edit)
Legend of Lizzie Borden
Every once in a while someone posts the entire film of Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. This made for TV film is the only movie (non-documentary) made of the case and is considered a classic. This one is on Google and is downloadable. So hurry, before it is removed, as all of them […]
Andrew and Ann Borden
A site that gives the top ten of about every topic you can imagine, has the Borden murders on the list of Top 10 Unsolved Crimes. For such a brief mention, there are multiple errors, not the least of which includes the name of one of the murdered (Ann) and the assumption (wrong) that Lizzie’s […]
Lizzie Borden Lecture
On October 31, 2006, Karen Elizabeth Chaney, author of True Crime in New England: Lizzie Borden gave a lecture on the Borden Murders at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, MA. It was filmed by WGBH and is available as an audio file, a video file, or an MP3 download. Here is Karen’s 40+ […]
Lizzie Play in Production
PLAN AHEAD: Lizzie in a tizzy If you’re like most people, you probably dread it when you get your juror notice statement in the mail. But here’s one jury you might not mind sitting on. The Devena Theatre Company will be presenting ‘Lizzie Borden and the 40 Whacks.’ The show will feature Lynne Moulton in […]
Man Hands Lizzie
It all started when DAN DUNN COLLECTIBLES of Buzzards Bay, MA (capecollector on eBay) labeled this person as Lizzie Borden. Since then, this person has appeared in YouTube movies, <a href="on eBay, websites, and goodness knows where else! Please be aware that experts agree that this woman is not the accused hatchet murderess. The Fall […]
Lizzie Rubrik’s Cube
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When Lizzie Borden Isn’t Lizzie Borden
There is a well designed blog whose author uses the name Lizzie Borden. She doesn’t write about the case, Fall River, Victoriana, or anything true crime. She doesn’t even write about other Lizzies —-the director, the rock band, the pornographer. Instead, she uses the name to present a persona of sorts from which to creatively […]
Nightwatchers at Lizzie Borden House
In a myspace blog about upcoming Nightwatchers events—ghost-hunting around the country—there is an advertisement/poster about a May 2008 overnight at the Lizzie Borden B&B. Nice poster. Only thing is, that isn’t a photo of Lizzie. This is the now famous “man-hands” Lizzie image that has been rejected by Borden scholars, the Fall River Historical Society, […]
Blood Relations Critique
A very good study of Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations, the best play about Lizzie Borden written to date, appeared recently on comp this!: a comprehensive comprehensive blog, humorously subtitled “a blog for writing about my experience studying for and writing the comprehensive exams for my ph.d. in english literature. one woman. one year. 225 novels. […]
Print version of The Hatchet for sale
The print version of the August 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies is now available for sale through LuLu.com. This issue is 120 pages in length, almost double our usual issue size. In addition, it presents new information regarding Emma Borden’s years at Wheaton Female Seminary (her lost years), including photos […]
People forget that Lizzie was acquitted
So many people only remember Lizzie from the doggerel that claims her guilt that she often makes the “I didn’t know that” lists. One such list is quite extensive and surely needs some checking to make sure it is all correct. However, if it is 100% right, it is an amazing collection. And, of course, […]
Lizzie Borden, Chickenman, and Edna Parker
She’s everywhere! She’s everywhere! I say that all the time. And it is true. Just turn on the TV on Friday nights, and if you have cable, there is Lizzie on some Travel Channel or A&E or History Channel show. Open a newspaper, magazine, or book, and often you will see her name mentioned. It […]
Lizzie Talk on August 15, 2007: Lizzie in Cyberspace
The Fall River Herald News ran a lovely piece today advertising my talk on Wednesday, August 15. Here is a copy. How kewl! There was this in today’s SouthCoastToday.com: ‘Lizzie Borden in Cyberspace’: The Friends of the Fall River Public Library present Prof. Stefani Korrey of Valencia Community College, Orlando, Fla., 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 […]