Alice + Freda Forever - Coe, Alexis
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"In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancâee Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter--and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancâee's throat. Her same-sex love was…mehr

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"In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancâee Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter--and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancâee's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: this was a dangerous and incurable perversion"--Publisher's website.
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Alexis Coe is a historian and New York Times Bestselling Author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of Washington and Alice+Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (soon to be a major motion picture). She was a producer on the History Channel's "Washington" series, and has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times' opinion section, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Elle, and many others. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.