"Lesbian couples." . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Lesbian couples Tennessee Memphis History 19th century." . . "Trials (Murder)" . . "Murder Tennessee Memphis History 19th century." . . "Memphis (Tenn.)" . . "Murder." . . "Trials (Murder) Tennessee Memphis History 19th century." . . . . . "Alice & Freda forever"@en . . "Alice plus Freda forever"@en . . . "Alice and Freda forever"@en . "Alice + Freda forever : a murder in Memphis"@en . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "\"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. Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes--painting a vivid picture of a sadly familiar world.\"--Publisher's website."@en . . . . . . . "History"@en . "Tennessee" . .