{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6761256ff444544373f2f68a/6a03dbea37a1e7308d3a0b44?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Lizzie Borden - Trial of the Century (Minisode)","description":"<p>Lizzie Borden was suspected, arrested, tried and ultimately acquitted of a brutal murder, and that is why she is famous - or infamous. But her life is also an interesting insight into how middle-class American women lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She may have been found not guilty in court, but public opinion was very different - and the murder completely changed her life.</p><p><br></p><p>Sources/Further Reading</p><p>Sullivan, Robert: Goodbye Lizzie Borden</p><p>Rebellion, Leonard: Lizzie Borden, Past &amp; Present</p><p>Axelron-Contrada, Joan: The Lizzie Borden Axe Murder Trial - A Headline Court Case</p><p>Conforti, Joseph: How Lizzie Borden Got Away with Murder <a href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lizzie-borden-got-away-with-murder-180972707/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lizzie-borden-got-away-with-murder-180972707/</a></p><p>Last Will and Testament of Lizzie Borden <a href=\"https://phayemuss.wordpress.com/source-documents/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://phayemuss.wordpress.com/source-documents/</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Matilda’s Top Women in History"}