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Alice + Freda Forever

A Murder in Memphis

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Alice + Freda Forever

By: Alexis Coe
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Alexis Coe
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 "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 seventeen-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. Americas Biographies Crime Education & Learning History & Culture LGBTQ+ United States Murder
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Absolutely amazing, very historical and also very engaging, great listen, if you liked “All Out” you will like this

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Women are often ignored in history. Older women are invisible from history. Black and disabled older women do not appear at all but, add lesbians to that title and you may as well be invisible, forgotten, isolated etc. I belong to three of these categories so, it is fabulous to hear about this love story legalities surrounding this dreadful crime.

I still remain mouth agape when my sexual orientation becomes a descriptor of me in front of others. I can guarantee there is at the very least one or more (dependant on the amount of people in the social setting), often repeated comments of “I’ve never come across a lesbian before”.

Incredulously, I will often make them aware of the many lesbians there are and, how long they have been around. I would like to thank the author for bringing this couple alive. If you like this, you may enjoy ‘Aimee & Jaguar” (non fiction too.

It may have taken 21 centuries but I believe those eye masks may be slipping off. Please remember to open your eyes too!

The eye mask is finally slipping off.

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