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WITH SILENT FRIENDS: A Famous Murder Mystery

... better. There is, for example, a hundred degrees more interest in Mr. Edmund Pearson's absorb ing story of The T rial of Lizzie Borden (Heine- mann ios. 6d.) than in the whole library of crime fiction lumped to gether. For the tale of what he calls America's ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2400 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

CASUAL COMMENTARY

... the civilised world. Which of the two famous ladies of that year is now best remembered-Miss Lottie Colli_ns or ~iss Lizzie Borden ? Lizzie was the heroine of the classic Amencan murder-and heroine is the right word, since she was triumphantly acquitted ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1937
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

the barn when she went to look for sinkers for some mythical fishing tackle. go to the very root of the ~atter

... The medical evidence showed that Mrs. Borden had been killed an hour or before There seem to be these two alternatives : Lizzie Borden went upstairs soon after nine, · struck down her stepmother, returned to her ironing, waited for her father to come in ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1937
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1084 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

intention, she rose to supreme heights of danng atrocity .

... far as I know, ~n~ certamlynot Mr. ~;arson, ity. No one, as far as I know, ~n~ certamlynot Mr. ~;arson, has found in Lizzie Borden the VlCtim of any complex. And yet, if she committed these murders, for just one ~rowde~ hour or so of an inglorious life ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1937
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 634 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

woman of a good, well-to-do, Chnstlan New England far~uly,

... the man in buckram whom the defence and the Bench and the people of the United States had conjured up for them. And s~ Lizzie Borden went back to live in Fall River on the considerable fortune that she had inherited on her stepmother's and father's death ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1937
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 389 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

BUSINESS FOR SALE

... 16th, (Harrap.) Pearson, E, (Heinemann.) Price. E. At 3s. 6d., on * Tyrolean June.” At 55., on Feb, 16th, “ Trial of Lizzie Borden,” At 55., on Jan, 30th, “ Glamour Girl.” At 2s. 6d., on Jan. 26th. (Harrap.) Propper, M. * One Murdered—Two Dead.” At 3s ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1939
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

The Bookseller

... ..3/6 Oxford U.P. Rel Passionate Lover (Conquest) 5C585d. 6d Readers' Lib. Fic PEARSON, E. Trial of Lizzie Borden. Ed. with a History of the Caes. BB 8. .. iviiersistenintsniisasnnisiies s Bl () Law PEATTIE, L. R. To-morrow is Ours ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1939
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

The Bookseller

... Orthopedic Nursing. Intro. by Dame Agnes Hunt. C8.xviii,230..c0ccvveeeuee.7/6 Faber (2) Med PEARSON, E. Trial of Lizzie Borden. Ed. with a History of the Caes. B B . . il e iet A T e 1) L PEATTIE, L. R. To-morrow is Ours. C 8.276. n.e3/6 Methuen ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1939
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Caravan, by Edward Seago. Sss. A superb sketch book of gipsy, fairground and circus life. (Collins) A Short ..

... the world was only one of Captain Macmillan’s thrilling adventures as an air pilot after the war. (Heinemann) Trial of Lizzie Borden, by Edmund Pearson. ss. The Borden Case, still unsolved, is perhaps the greatest of American causes célébres. (Heinemann) ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1939
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 546 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: These Summer Days

... from the year 1876, and which is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of gold. And the haunting jingle of such lines as Lizzie Borden with an axe Hit her father forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She hit her mother forty-one. And all about the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2211 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Murderess Acquitted

... LOWNDES has chosen one of the most famous American murders as the theme of her new book, Lizzie Borden (Hutchinson, Ss. 3(1.). Towards the end of last century Lizzie Borden, a Sunday school teacher and devoted church worker, was accused of murdering her father ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 4 | Tags: none