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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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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A town on Narragansett Bay -- The people -- 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.
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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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378
Poisoning. (OCoLC)fst01068142
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Rhode Island. (OCoLC)fst01204599
Rhode Island -- Newport. (OCoLC)fst01210119
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Crane, Elaine Forman. Poison plot. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501721311 (DLC) 2017052061
ISBN 9781501721328 (epub/mobi)
9781501721335 (pdf)
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