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The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501721335
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6555 .P657 2018
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Contents:
The people -- Mary's tale -- Benedict's tale -- The physicians' tale -- The apothecary's tale -- Age -- Adultery -- Arsenic.
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HV6555.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1010604913

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"--

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