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Author Crane, Elaine Forman, author.

Title The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport / Elaine Forman Crane.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 CRA    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 CRANE    Check Shelf
Description xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A town on Narragansett Bay -- A case of poison -- Mary's tale -- Benedict's tale -- The physicians' tale -- The apothecary's tale -- Age -- Adultery -- Arsenic.
Summary "Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Arnold, Mary, 1702-1769.
Arnold, Benedict, 1683-1739.
Poisoning -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies.
Adultery -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies.
Newport (R.I.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Other Form: Online version: Crane, Elaine Forman. Poison plot. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 (DLC) 2017052952
ISBN 9781501721311 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1501721313 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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