Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair
Author | : Andrew Jackson Marsh |
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1871 |
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Author | : Laura D. Fair |
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Total Pages | : 325 |
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Author | : Laura D. Fair |
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Total Pages | : 329 |
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Author | : Andrew Jackson Marsh |
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Total Pages | : 329 |
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Author | : Laura D. Fair |
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Author | : Carole Haber |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146960759X |
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.