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Alice + Freda Forever
- A Murder in Memphis
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Alexis Coe
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
"Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance." (Bustle)
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation - it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her 17-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again.
Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter - and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail - including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells).
After a jury of "the finest men in Memphis" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.
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- Kathryn
- 14-06-20
Loved it!
Absolutely amazing, very historical and also very engaging, great listen, if you liked “All Out” you will like this
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