| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
A town on Narragansett Bay -- The people -- Mary's tale -- Benedict's tale -- The physicians' tale -- The apothecary's tale -- Age -- Adultery -- Arsenic |
| Summary |
"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 women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Mary Arnold, Benedict Arnold, divorce, counterfieting, drugs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Arnold, Mary, 1702-1769.
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Arnold, Benedict, 1683-1739.
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| SUBJECT |
Arnold, Benedict, 1683-1739
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Arnold, Mary, 1702-1769
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| Subject |
Poisoning -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies
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Adultery -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
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Adultery
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Poisoning
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Newport (R.I.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113725
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| Subject |
Rhode Island
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Rhode Island -- Newport
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017052952 |
| ISBN |
9781501721328 |
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1501721321 |
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9781501721335 |
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150172133X |
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1501721313 |
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9781501721311 |
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