The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport

The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
ISBN-10
150172133X
ISBN-13
9781501721335
Series
The Poison Plot
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2018-05-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Elaine Forman Crane

Description

"Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"--

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