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{{short description|American murder suspect (1860–1927)}}▼
{{Other uses}}▼
{{Use American English|date=October 2021}}▼
{{Infobox person▼
| name = Lizzie Borden▼
| image = Lizzie borden.jpg▼
| caption = Borden in 1889▼
| birth_name = Lizzie Andrew Borden▼
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|7|19}}▼
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Fall River, Massachusetts]], U.S.}}▼
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|6|1|1860|7|19}}▼
| death_place = Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.▼
| other_names = Lizbeth Borden▼
| resting_place = [[Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, Massachusetts)|Oak Grove Cemetery]]▼
| known_for = Suspected homicide▼
| signature = Lizzie Borden signature.svg▼
}}▼
'''Lizzie Andrew Borden''' (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 [[axe murder]]s of her father and stepmother in [[Fall River, Massachusetts]].<ref name="NickellSI">{{cite journal |last1=Nickell |first1=Joe |title=Lizzie Borden's Eighty-One Whacks |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=April 2020 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=22–25}}</ref> No one else was charged in the murders, and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.▼
The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States and, along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in [[American popular culture]] to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and [[Skipping-rope rhyme|folk rhymes]] that are still very well-known in the Fall River area.<ref name="ah" />▼
==Early life==
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*''See What I Have Done'', 2017 novel by Australian writer [[Sarah Schmidt]], tells the story of the murders and their aftermath from the points of view of Lizzie and Emma Borden, Bridget Sullivan, and an imagined stranger.{{sfn|Schmidt|2017}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jordan |first1=Justine |title=See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt review – inside the mind of Lizzie Borden |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/see-what-i-have-done-sarah-schmidt-lizzie-borden-book-review |access-date=November 13, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=April 27, 2017}}</ref> It won the [[MUD Literary Prize]] for a debut novel.<ref name=austlit>{{cite web | title=MUD Literary Prize | website=[[AustLit]]| publisher= [[University of Queensland]]| url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/13007495 | access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Erika Mailman]]'s 2017 novel ''The Murderer's Maid'' is told from the points of view of Bridget Sullivan in 1892 and a young woman with a connection to the case in the modern day. It won a gold medal for historical fiction in the [[Independent Publisher Book Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allard |first=Deborah |date=May 25, 2018 |title=Meet the author of "The Murderer's Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel" |url=https://www.heraldnews.com/story/entertainment/events/2018/05/25/meet-author-murderer-s-maid/11909518007/ |access-date=April 14, 2023 |website=Fall River Herald News |language=en-US}}</ref>
▲{{short description|American murder suspect (1860–1927)}}
▲{{Other uses}}
▲{{Use American English|date=October 2021}}
▲{{Infobox person
▲| name = Lizzie Borden
▲| image = Lizzie borden.jpg
▲| caption = Borden in 1889
▲| birth_name = Lizzie Andrew Borden
▲| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|7|19}}
▲| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Fall River, Massachusetts]], U.S.}}
▲| death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|6|1|1860|7|19}}
▲| death_place = Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
▲| other_names = Lizbeth Borden
▲| resting_place = [[Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, Massachusetts)|Oak Grove Cemetery]]
▲| known_for = Suspected homicide
▲| signature = Lizzie Borden signature.svg
▲}}
▲'''Lizzie Andrew Borden''' (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 [[axe murder]]s of her father and stepmother in [[Fall River, Massachusetts]].<ref name="NickellSI">{{cite journal |last1=Nickell |first1=Joe |title=Lizzie Borden's Eighty-One Whacks |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=April 2020 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=22–25}}</ref> No one else was charged in the murders, and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.
▲The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States and, along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in [[American popular culture]] to the present day. They have been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and [[Skipping-rope rhyme|folk rhymes]] that are still very well-known in the Fall River area.<ref name="ah" />
==See also==
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