Difference between revisions of "Alice Mitchell murders Freda Ward: Memphis, Tennessee, 1892"
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| + | 1892, Jan. 26: N. Y. Times, etc., Alice Mitchell murders Freda Ward; see Times stories and medical journal articles cited in text. I am informed that the Mitchell-Ward case was reported in the Memphis Public Ledger, Jan. 26 through Feb. 27, 1892, and the Memphis Weekly Commercial, July 27, 1892. | ||
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| + | A story in the Ledger on Feb, 11, 1892, 2:3, includes an account of Marie Hinkle (or Hindle) who had married another woman in Memphis, 1869-70. | ||
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| + | The Ledger of Feb. 18, 1892, 1:4, carried a story headed: | ||
| + | "He Was A Woman," about an East Tennessee settler, Henry Armstrong, who was discovered to be Mira Lawrence. | ||
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| + | On the Mitchell-Ward case also see the sex radical Dr. Edward Bliss Foote in Lucifer, September 23, 1892, cited in Sears, Sex Radicals, p. 226. | ||
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Revision as of 22:09, 16 November 2010
"I killed Freda because I loved her, and she refused to marry me"
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Request for upload from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), pp. 223-227.
Lisa Duggan book on case. Google search for other articles to add to bibliog.
1892, Jan. 26: N. Y. Times, etc., Alice Mitchell murders Freda Ward; see Times stories and medical journal articles cited in text. I am informed that the Mitchell-Ward case was reported in the Memphis Public Ledger, Jan. 26 through Feb. 27, 1892, and the Memphis Weekly Commercial, July 27, 1892.
A story in the Ledger on Feb, 11, 1892, 2:3, includes an account of Marie Hinkle (or Hindle) who had married another woman in Memphis, 1869-70.
The Ledger of Feb. 18, 1892, 1:4, carried a story headed:
"He Was A Woman," about an East Tennessee settler, Henry Armstrong, who was discovered to be Mira Lawrence.
On the Mitchell-Ward case also see the sex radical Dr. Edward Bliss Foote in Lucifer, September 23, 1892, cited in Sears, Sex Radicals, p. 226. <comments />
