Alice + Freda Forever
A Murder in Memphis
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Narrated by:
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Sophie Amoss
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Alexis Coe
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By:
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Alexis Coe
About this listen
"Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance." (Bustle)
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation - it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her 17-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again.
Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter - and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail - including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells).
After a jury of "the finest men in Memphis" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.
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I still remain mouth agape when my sexual orientation becomes a descriptor of me in front of others. I can guarantee there is at the very least one or more (dependant on the amount of people in the social setting), often repeated comments of “I’ve never come across a lesbian before”.
Incredulously, I will often make them aware of the many lesbians there are and, how long they have been around. I would like to thank the author for bringing this couple alive. If you like this, you may enjoy ‘Aimee & Jaguar” (non fiction too.
It may have taken 21 centuries but I believe those eye masks may be slipping off. Please remember to open your eyes too!
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