50 ways to locate Lizzie
I could spend hours on this list on Lizzie’s Place. Who knew there were so many famous Lizzie’s out there? The main page for the site is here. Don’t forget to go all the way down the main page and listen to Gus Van and Joe Schenck perform “Strut, Miss Lizzie” from the Ziegfeld Follies […]
New Lizzie Book Author Interview
Cara Robertson, the lawyer/scholar who played Emma Borden in the Stanford University reenactment of the trial, has a book on the Borden case due out soon. The Trial of Lizzie Borden is under contract with Random House and an interview with Robertson appears in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of “News of the National Humanities Center.” […]
My Client is Not Insane
From the New York Times, May 14, 1893.
Legend of Lizzie Borden
If you don’t have a personal copy and want to watch the entire Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, online, you are in luck—if you don’t mind watching it in 2 minute spurts! Postbus has kindly posted the clips on YouTube.com. You can subscribe to his channel and watch the film in installments, as […]
Can you beat Brainy Quote?
My all time favorite Lizzie Borden quote came about when she was asked this at the Inquest: “Where was your sister Emma that day?” To which Lizzie Borden replied, apparently with a straight face, “What day?” “Intrepid Reporter” found a site that has about four dozen Lizzie Borden quotes on it. It is called Brainy […]
Lizzie Dust
I found a piece about Lee-ann Wilbur’s sale of Borden house fireplace chimney dust to raise money for the planned renovations in the Spring 2005 newsletter called “The Compass,” published by the Bristol County Convention & Visitors Bureau. You can download your copy of the 8-page report in PDF format here. The article is on […]
She’s Famous But Is She New England?
A nicely researched and well written piece on Lizzie Borden by Kate Woodbury is found on katepapers. I really recommend you give it your time and read it all in one sitting. It raises some very interesting points and examines the iconography of this enigmatic person we all read about here. Here’s a snippit: It […]
Hauntings Notes
In Volume 8, Issue 2 (summer 2005) of the Hauntings Notes newsletter is a piece titled “Lizzie Borden Secrets Unlocked.” Download the PDF of the issue here. The story details the filming of the segment on the house for Fangoria TV’s Ghost Stories. It talks about the large number of EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) they […]
Alison Fraser
Alison Fraser created the role of Lizzie Borden in Christopher McGovern’s musical Lizzie Borden. She has a fabulous website that I know you will love. She has a section with some sound clips from the soundtrack, a slideshow gallery of her various roles which includes her Lizzie, and a very creative area with the Paper […]
Lizzie Causes a Sensation
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, July 24, 1893:
Lizzie in 1923
From the New York Times, May 12, 1923:
Lizzie Borden Walks Free Again
Back in 1997, Stanford University conducted a 90 minute dramatization of the trial of Lizzie Borden. The jury was the large attending audience and the presiding justices were Stanford alums Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist. This article is from the September 19, 1997 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly online edition, and describes the […]
Oh for the good old days
This from the July 30, 1998 South Coast Today. Lizzie will come alive at seminar By Carol Lee Costa-Crowell, Standard-Times staff writer FALL RIVER — All right all you Lizzie Borden fans, get ready to gear up for four days of Lizzie mania. The seventh annual Lizzie Borden Expo begins Saturday, and this time all […]
Lizzie to lecture
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1893, three days after her acquittal:
Resolved Answers?!!
Ok, these are pret-ty darn bad. Read at your own risk. Not to be taken before operating heavy machinery. May cause irritability. Could dangerously affect your ability to drive or work. Not to be taken with alcohol. Can cause stomach upset and ulcers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! From ANSWERS.YAHOO.COM, voted the “Best Answers”: […]
Lizzie Says She is Innocent
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, April 15, 1893.
In a Cell Once More
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, September 3, 1892.
ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest Library has a bio of Lizzie that examines the case as well. Beware: there are a lot of errors here and assumptions made here about situations, motives, and lifestyle choices. I would like to know how they can assume so much without proof. My favorite part is when they say that Bridget has an […]