Murdered by His Wife

Murdered by His Wife
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 1558493344
ISBN-13 : 9781558493346
Rating : 4/5 (346 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Murdered by His Wife by : Deborah Navas

Download or read book Murdered by His Wife written by Deborah Navas and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2001-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction writer and independent scholar Navas reconstructs a little-remembered incident during the US war for independence. Bathsheba took in and nursed a 16-year-old Continental soldier returning from a year under Washington, and became pregnant by him. Because divorce was nearly impossible and adulteresses were publicly stripped and whipped, she, with help from the boy and others, beat hubby to death and stuffed him in a well. It did not help her case that her father was the state's most prominent and despised Loyalist. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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