The Poison Plot : : A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport / / Elaine Forman Crane.
An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rh...
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Crane, Elaine Forman, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Poison Plot : A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (272 p.) : 17 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause célèbre in Newport through the winter of 1738 and 1739.Elaine Forman Crane invites readers into the salacious domestic life of Mary and Benedict Arnold and reveals the seamy side of colonial Newport. The surprise of The Poison Plot, however, is not the outrageous acts of Mary or the peculiar fact that attempted murder was not a convictable offense in Rhode Island. As Crane shows with style, Mary’s case was remarkable precisely because adultery, criminality and theft, and even spousal homicide were well known in the New England colonies. Assumptions of Puritan propriety are overturned by the facts of rough and tumble life in a port city: money was to be made, pleasure was to be had, and if marriage became an obstacle to those pursuits a woman had means to set things right.The Poison Plot is an intimate drama constructed from historical documents and informed by Crane’s deep knowledge of elite and common life in Newport. Her keen eye for telling details and her sense of story bring Mary, Benedict, and a host of other characters—including her partner in adultery, Walter Motley, and John Tweedy the apothecary who sold Mary toxic drugs—to life in the homes, streets, and shops of the port city. The result is a vivid tale that will change minds about life in supposedly prim and proper New England. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2024) Adultery Rhode Island Newport History 18th century Case studies. Poisoning Rhode Island Newport History 8th century Case studies. Criminology. Early American & Colonial History. U.S. History. Mary Arnold, Benedict Arnold, divorce, counterfieting, drugs. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721335 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721335 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721335/original |
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