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ii, 222 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"Bathsheba Spooner, raised in wealth and privilege, dreams of a life of happiness and grandeur. To protect her from the coming American Revolution, her father forces her to marry an affluent businessman she despises. Her father is banished from his town, forced to go to Boston to join other British Loyalists. He stops at Bathsheba's to say goodbye. Heartbroken, she knows she will never see him again. After ten years of loveless marital misery, with the turmoil of war swirling around her, she is desperate for love and affection. When she saves a 16-year-old American soldier from certain death, they begin an affair and she soon finds herself pregnant. Loathing her husband and fearing public humiliation, she pleads with the soldier to murder her husband, but he flees. Her British sympathies make her a pariah in a town of ardent rebels. So instead she must conspire with two British prisoners of war to murder her husband. With no escape plan, the three men are soon arrested after a drunken escapade and implicate Bathsheba; she is swiftly arrested. In the first murder after the Declaration of Independence, they are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by hanging. Bathsheba pleads for a stay of execution until after her baby is born but it is denied. On a hot July afternoon, in front of a crowd of several thousand, the four are executed. Finding peace and solace in her final moments, she dies awaiting eternal salvation after personal repentance"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Spooner, Bathsheba, 1746-1778 -- Fiction.
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Spooner, Joshua -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Massachusetts -- Brookfield (Town) -- Fiction.
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Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- Fiction.
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Spooner, Bathsheba, 1746-1778. (OCoLC)fst00431936
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Spooner, Joshua. (OCoLC)fst00421637
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Executions and executioners. (OCoLC)fst00917772
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Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
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Massachusetts -- Brookfield (Town)
(OCoLC)fst01331435
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Massachusetts -- Worcester.
(OCoLC)fst01207904
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Fictional Work (DNLM)D022922
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Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781935052746 (softcover) |
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1935052748 (softcover) |
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