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Title: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Author: Alexis Coe
Narrator: Alexis Coe, Sophie Amoss
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Release date: January 21, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
'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 seventeen-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.
