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1892: Lizzie Borden: Murderer or misunderstood?
The Secrets of Lizzie Borden
What you need to know before your trail
Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life. Instead, haunted by the ghost of childhood poverty, he forces Lizzie and her sister, Emma, to live frugally, denying them the simplest modern conveniences. Potential friends are driven away as they are deemed to be fortune hunters.
Lonely and deeply unhappy, Lizzie stifles her frustration, and she can only dream of what she could do if she had the freedom due to her. She thinks of the day that her inheritance will give her the independence. However even that is uncertain. And on a stifling August day in 1892, Lizzie s long-simmering anger finally explodes…
Travel Guide
Fall River MA
This was the town where the infamous events of 1892 when Lizzie Borden was put on trial for the murder of her stepmother Abby and her father. She remained the prime suspect up until her death in 1927 and no one else was ever convicted of the crime . She could never live a normal life however since she was pratically ostracised by the locals
The book looks into her past – her early trauma following her mother’s death and her cruel sister who turns Lizzie against their stepmother. Added to this a hard and lonely life made worse by the miserly habits of her father and Lizzie lived a world of torment. They were well off in those days but the father chose to live without running water and other luxuries of the time.
Lizzie has little self-esteem and seems to be increasingly fixated on blood. A woman in a cage, desperate to break free..
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Author/Guide: Brandy Purdy Destination: Fall River Departure Time: 1892
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