Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour" - Brossura

Faderman, Lillian

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ISBN 10: 0231163258 ISBN 13: 9780231163255

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence of their students. Dame Helen Cumming Gordon, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the Drumsheugh boarding school. Within days, the institution was deserted and the two women were deprived of their livelihoods.

Award-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman's famous play, The Children's Hour. Reconstructing the libel suit filed by Pirie and Woods—which resulted in a scotch verdict, or a verdict of inconclusive/not proven—Faderman builds a compelling narrative from court transcripts, judges' notes, witnesses' contradictory testimony, and the prejudices of the men presiding over the case. Her fascinating portrait documents the social, economic, and sexual pressures shaping the lives of nineteenth-century women and the issues of class and gender contributing to their marginalization.

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L'autore:

Lillian Faderman is professor emerita of English at California State University, Fresno. Her award-winning titles are Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America; Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present; Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir; To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America—A History; and Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.

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Book by Faderman Lillian

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0231163258
• ISBN 13: 9780231163255
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 315