Alias Grace

[electronic resource] /

English language

Published 2003 by RosettaBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-7953-2835-0
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OCLC Number:
53276941

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A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?

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Subjects

  • Romans
  • Murder
  • Trials (Murder)
  • Women murderers
  • Fiction

Places

  • Canada