Lizzie Borden

:This article is about the Lizzie Borden made famous by the nursery rhyme; for the film-maker, see Lizzie Borden (filmmaker)

Artistic depictions

A number of books expounding different theories have been written about the crime. These include:

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• Brown, Arnold R. Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter." Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. (ISBN 1558530991)
• de Mille, Agnes. Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1968. (ISBN unavailable)
• Kent, David Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden. Yankee Books, 1992. (ISBN 0899093515)
• Kent, David The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1992. (ISBN 0828319502)
• Lincoln, Victoria. A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight. NY: G.P. Putnam?s Sons, 1967. (ISBN 0930330358)
• Masterton, William L. Lizzie Didn?t Do It! Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 2000. (ISBN 0828320527)
• Spiering, Frank. Lizzie: The Story of Lizzie Borden. Dorset Press, 1991. (ISBN 0880296852)
• Sullivan, Robert. Goodbye Lizzie Borden. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1974. (ISBN 0140114165)

There is a scholarly journal published on Lizzie Borden, Fall River, and Victorian era America:

Related Topics:
Fall River - Victorian era

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• The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. PearTree Press.

There is also a 1975 film adaptation of the crime:

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• The Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring Elizabeth Montgomery.

She was the subject of the opera, Lizzie Borden, (1965), by Jack Beeson.

Related Topics:
Opera - 1965 - Jack Beeson

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Rick Geary used a journal written by a Fall River resident as the narrative device of his comic book "The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1892." NY: NBN Pub., 1997 -- an entry in his series, "A Treasury of Victorian Murder."

Related Topics:
Rick Geary - Comic book

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Miss Borden also appears as a character in Monkeybone (2001), Joe Killionaire (2004), and Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988), played by Shawnee Free Jones, Alice Alyse, and Lauren Peterson, respectively; these depictions fall into the Victorian Evil category.

Related Topics:
Monkeybone - 2001 - Joe Killionaire - 2004 - Saturday the 14th Strikes Back - 1988 - Shawnee Free Jones - Alice Alyse - Lauren Peterson

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Borden was depicted on the episode "Treehouse of Horror IV" of The Simpsons (1993), as a member of the Devil's hand picked "Jury of the Damned". The Jury was convened to render a verdict on the Devil's claim over Homer Simpson's soul.

Related Topics:
Treehouse of Horror IV - The Simpsons - 1993 - Devil - Jury - Damned - Verdict - Homer Simpson

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