Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"

In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods,...
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Author: Lillian Faderman
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Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour" by Faderman, Lillian

Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"

$120.80

Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"

$120.80
Author: Lillian Faderman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence of their students. Dame Helen Cumming Gordon, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the Drumsheugh boarding school. Within days, the institution was deserted and the two women were deprived of their livelihoods.

Award-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman's famous play, The Children's Hour. Reconstructing the libel suit filed by Pirie and Woods--which resulted in a scotch verdict, or a verdict of inconclusive/not proven--Faderman builds a compelling narrative from court transcripts, judges' notes, witnesses' contradictory testimony, and the prejudices of the men presiding over the case. Her fascinating portrait documents the social, economic, and sexual pressures shaping the lives of nineteenth-century women and the issues of class and gender contributing to their marginalization.

Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01/08/2013
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231163255

About the Author
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita of English at California State University, Fresno. Her award-winning titles are Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America; Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present; Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir; To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History; and Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.

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