Walk Towards the Gallows : : The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 / / Tom Mitchell, Reinhold Kramer.
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.Blake uninten...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Murder of Mary Lane
- PART I
- 1. A Vulnerable and Isolated Virtue
- 2. A Workhouse Child, & You Know What That Is!
- 3. Garden of the Lord
- 4. A Good and Faithful Servant
- PART II
- 5. My Downfall
- 6. One of the Most Atrocious Crimes
- 7. He Fears Not God, Neither Regards Man
- 8. I Am Guilty
- 9. In Purple and Fine Linen
- 10. Now I Feel Ashamed
- 11. A Man Coldly Impervious to the Emotional
- PART III
- 12. Whene'er a Wrong Is Done
- 13. Novels, Poems, and Coon Songs
- 14. Duty to the Public
- 15. The Interests of Province, Not Party
- 16. Come Ye That Are Weary
- Aftermath
- Writing about Hilda Blake: A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Index