Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Maybe everyone else has seen this~or not. There is an interesting article at:

htts://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol8/iss2/2

It is titled "Representing 'Miss Lizzie':Cultural Convictions of the Trial of Lizzie Borden' by Cara W. Robertson.

It is not about Lizzie's guilt or innocence but is about how the lawyers defended or prosecuted her. Some of the facts of the case mentioned in passing as inaccurate but it doesn't matter because the point of the article is legal strategy within the cultural and scientific framework of the times.

irina wrote:Maybe everyone else has seen this~or not. There is an interesting article at:

htts://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol8/iss2/2

It is titled "Representing 'Miss Lizzie':Cultural Convictions of the Trial of Lizzie Borden' by Cara W. Robertson.

It is not about Lizzie's guilt or innocence but is about how the lawyers defended or prosecuted her. Some of the facts of the case mentioned in passing as inaccurate but it doesn't matter because the point of the article is legal strategy within the cultural and scientific framework of the times.

I ran onto this, too, while searching for Chinese in Fall River and it's fascinating.

It has that quote from the "Scarlet Letter" that you used. I found it while searching for "Lizzie Borden, Chinese". I think it's an interesting discussion of the case without hanging up on guilt or innocence. There were things I never understood about why Knowlton seemed to pull his punches in an odd way. Sometimes it does seem like everyone was bought off. This piece goes a way to understanding it in context.

Yes, I read it too, and in the same way. I agree, fascinating stuff!