Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231163258 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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A brilliant find. (William French Globe and Mail)An absorbing transcript detailing the evolution of our understanding of the sexual relationships between women using the Scotch trial as the lynchpin. Beyond that, they make us privy to a unique glimpse of what lesbianism was considered to be at the time. Totally engrossing. The story is mesmerizing while the writing is riveting. (Karla Jay Women's Review of Books)Faderman, a noted U.S. Her approach is valid and compelling, but her story is fascinating on many other levels as well. She examines the trial from a feminist viewpoint, showing how it revealed the prevailing attitudes toward women in a phallocentric society. Faderman continues her valuable excavations of the archaeology of erotic relationships between women. (
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. Reconstructing the libel suit filed by Pirie and Woodswhich resulted in a scotch verdict, or a verdict of inconclusive/not provenFaderman builds a compelling narrative from court transcripts, judges' notes, witnesses' contradictory testimony, and the prejudices of the men presiding over the case. 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. 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.. 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
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita of English at California State University, Fresno. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.. 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 fo
"Did they, or Didn't they????" according to aron row. Noted feminist, Lillian Faderman provides a spellbinding story as she recounts the famous trial from the 1800’s in which two school mistresses are accused by one of their students of displaying a sexual relationship with each other. In the libel suit that ensued, the result was a scotch verdict, meaning the charge was inconclusive or not proven. Reminiscent of Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour”, . Guarina said Passion squelched. How do social rules shape lives? Tbis is ultimately an account of women 's lives in suffocating economic and social conditions. Emotional existence is restricted andhardly allowed to breathe. Touches on alienation of the foreign born (India) in the society of their colonizer, adolescent eroticism and of course complications of racism and restrictive Victorian culture. Compassion we feel for the girl accuser, her accomplice and eve. bryceesq said interesting history. I love Lillian faderman's other books. This one unfortunately tries to incorporate fiction into an interesting historical court case. The court documents are quite heavy, but riveting. Two women are suing for libel. They have been accused of having an affair in the early 1800s Scotland. The fiction is not really necessary, quite distracting, and a the fictional character is clearly racist. Not Faderman's best, but the content make