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A Victorian lesbian romance ends in madness, jealousy, and MURDER?? - Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward
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Alice planned to cut her hair, grow a mustache, and marry Freda as 'Alvin J. Ward' in a secret Victorian same-sex wedding.
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A conversational Memphis true-crime episode that gives Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward real emotional weight.
Bailey Sarian tells this late-19th-century Memphis murder as a true crime story that stays close to Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward. The letters, the proposal, and the plan for a legal marriage give the episode a human center before the violence takes over, which is where the case…
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A late-19th-century Memphis story of teen love, murder, and a proposal that went nowhere.
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