The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport /
Crane, Elaine Forman.
The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
A town on Narragansett Bay -- The people -- Mary's tale -- Benedict's tale -- The physicians' tale -- The apothecary's tale -- Age -- Adultery -- Arsenic.
"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"--
9781501721335
2017052952
Poisoning--History--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century--Case studies.
Adultery--History--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
HV6555 / .P657 2018
The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
A town on Narragansett Bay -- The people -- Mary's tale -- Benedict's tale -- The physicians' tale -- The apothecary's tale -- Age -- Adultery -- Arsenic.
"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"--
9781501721335
2017052952
Poisoning--History--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century--Case studies.
Adultery--History--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
HV6555 / .P657 2018