Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899
ISBN-10
0195416864
ISBN-13
9780195416862
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2002-01-01
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Authors
Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer

Description

In 1899, Hilda Blake, a domestic servant in Winnipeg, shot her pregnant employer. Cain's Daughter offers a fascinating, well-written account of this extraordinary legal and historical event, Along the way, the book skillfully illuminates social and political life in turn of the century Canada.

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