A Woman Scorned?
Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
… with words like “sex,” “murder,” and “insanity” in their titles promise a level of excitement and intrigue which their … a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … in fact, she was the “other woman.” Given her colorful past, Laura also did not appear to be an innocent succumbing …