The secrets of Lizzie Borden
Purdy, Brandy2016
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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. Suitors and socializing are discouraged, as her father views all gentleman callers as fortune hunters. Lonely and deeply unhappy, Lizzie stifles her frustration, dreaming of the freedom that will come with her eventual inheritance. But soon, even that chance of future independence seems about to be ripped away. And on a stifling August day in 1892, Lizzie's long-simmering anger finally explodes.
Main title:
The secrets of Lizzie Borden / Brandy Purdy.
Author:
Purdy, Brandy, author
Imprint:
New York : Kensington, 2016.
Collation:
305 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780758288912 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6T
Local class:
FAFPBK
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1422149
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