Girl Slays Girl: An Excerpt From Alice + Freda Forever

Alexis Coe

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation—it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man to support her seventeen-year-old fiancée, Freda Ward.

Girl Slays Girl: An Excerpt From Alice + Freda Forever

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