The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport

The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport /

"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 wo...

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Main Author: Crane, Elaine Forman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Arnold, Mary, > 1702-1769.
Arnold, Benedict, > 1683-1739.
1600-1799
Poisoning > Rhode Island > Newport > History > 18th century > Case studies.
Adultery > Rhode Island > Newport > History > 18th century > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Adultery
Poisoning
Social conditions
Newport (R.I.) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Rhode Island > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Rhode Island > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Newport
Mary Arnold, Benedict Arnold, divorce, counterfieting, drugs.
Case studies
History
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