Notorious Sisters: Lizzie & Co.

by margaret on November 21, 2008

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one

WHILE YOU might think that it’s the kind of children’s rhyme that only the Adams Family could love, it’s not. Well-known to millions of people, it still easily slips off the American tongue 117 years after the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, charged with hacking to death her father and stepmother. And while we all seem to know that rhyme, what you may not know is that Lizzie had a sister, and that she, like all sisters, had her own version of the family tale, as well. [click to continue…]

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