Poisoned Life
Subtitle: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781476670638
Subjects: Murder, great britain; Trials (murder); Americans, foreign countries
Description: "Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States. Decades later, a diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a Jack the Ripper suspect"--