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June 20, 2017. The house where somebody murdered Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother in 1892. She was acquitted almost a year later. Wikimedia Commons. Did she do it? Anybody who knew for...
- Fiction: Andrew Borden Killed His Daughter’S Pet Birds with A Hatchet
- Fact: The Bordens Were Wealthy, But Still Worried About Money
- Fiction: Lizzie Borden called Bridget Sullivan by Her Real Name
- Unclear: Lizzie Borden Was Gay
- Fact: Bridget Sullivan Was Window-Washing on The Day of The Murders
- Unclear: Lizzie Borden Suffered from Seizures
- Fact: The Bordens Did Not Always Get Along
It’s not just humans who face a hatchet in Lizzie. One particularly disturbing scene shows Borden’s father, in a fit of rage, beheading her beloved pet pigeons, leaving her distraught. The movie picks up on a popular theory about the Borden murders, which maintains that Andrew Borden killing the pigeons was part of what pushed Lizzie Borden to murd...
Andrew Borden was a wealthy businessman, and the family’s estate was worth the equivalent of about $8.3 million. But Borden, as shown in the movie, was incredibly frugal and kept his daughters out of important financial matters. Lizzie Borden’s uncle, John Morse, is shown coming to meet with Andrew Borden about inheriting the property. In real life...
In Lizzie, Andrew Borden and his wife disrespectfully call the maid, Bridget Sullivan, by the name of a previous employee, Maggie. It’s Lizzie Borden who uses Sullivan’s real name when addressing her — a sign that she sees her as an equal. In real life, the entire Borden family, including Lizzie and her sister Emma, who was not home at the time of ...
Another bit of conjecture about Lizzie Borden has to do with her sexuality, a theory that becomes a central point in Lizzie. Whether Borden actually had an affair with Bridget Sullivan is unclear; some have supposed Abby Borden caught the two together, leading Lizzie Borden to kill her. Others have said Andrew Borden was the one who caught them. Th...
Bridget Sullivan is an accomplice to murder in Lizzie, though the real-life Sullivan was not a murder suspect. As seen in the film, Sullivan stands outside washing windows during the first murder, and it’s clear she knows what is going on. In reality, Sullivan had just washed the windows and was resting in her room when she heard Lizzie Borden call...
In Lizzie, Lizzie Borden has frequent epileptic seizures, which furthers her isolation. Some theorizers eager to unravel the mystery of the Borden murders have turned to the notion that Lizzie Borden suffered from epilepsy and that she was having a seizure when she committed the first murder. While the film does not imply that Borden was having an ...
AsLizzie reveals, Lizzie Borden, in her search for a better life beyond her family’s house, often butted heads with her father and stepmother. In real life, it appears Borden was close with her father, despite him getting in the way of her having a life of her own, but had an acrimonious relationship with Abby Borden, her stepmother. Sullivan in he...
Jun 12, 2017 · What might have prompted Lizzie Borden, acquitted of murder, to kill her parents? The economic climate in Fall River, Mass., at the time provides clues.
Chopping a Branch Off Lizzie Borden’s Family Tree. Wikimedia Commons. Lizzie Borden—the name conjures up graphic scenes of a half-crazed woman wielding an axe in fury as she viciously murders her father and stepmother. This murder mystery is a Hollywood dream come true.
Aug 31, 2015 · Lizzie Andrew Borden was accused, tried and found not guilty of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts. The case became a popular culture...
Oct 12, 2021 · By Stacy Conradt | Oct 12, 2021. Lizzie Borden. / Cropped image from Yale Law Library, Flickr // CC BY 2.0. Read More. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks ... or did she?...
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Jan 7, 2022 · Jan 07 2022. The Long Silence of Lizzie Borden | Yankee Magazine, Now a Yankee classic, this article about the life of Lizzie Borden in the years following the 1892 murders of her father and stepmother was first published in 1996. What did Lizzie Borden do after the trial? Read on to find out.
