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Author Kramer, Reinhold, 1959-

Title Walk towards the gallows : the tragedy of Hilda Blake, hanged 1899 / Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages : illustrations, map, plan, portraits
Series The Canadian social history series
Canadian social history series.
Contents Introduction: The Murder of Mary Lane -- Part I. 1 A Vulnerable and Isolated Virtue -- 2 A Workhouse Child, & You Know What That Is! -- 3 Garden of the Lord -- 4 A Good and Faithful Servant -- Part II. 5 My Downfall -- 6 One of the Most Atrocious Crimes -- 7 He Fears Not God, Neither Regards Man -- 8 I Am Guilty! -- 9 In Purple and Fine Linen -- 10 Now I Feel Ashamed -- 11 A Man Coldly Impervious to the Emotional -- Part III. 12 Whene'er a Wrong Is Done -- 13 Novels, Poems, and Coon Songs -- 14 Duty to the Public -- 15 The Interests of Province, Not Party -- 16 Come Ye That Are Weary -- Aftermath -- Writing about Hilda Blake: A Note on Sources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-311) and index
Notes English
Subject Blake, Hilda, 1878-1899.
SUBJECT Blake, Hilda, 1878-1899 fast
Subject Murderers -- Manitoba -- Brandon -- Biography
Women household employees -- Manitoba -- Brandon -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- )
Murderers
Women household employees
SUBJECT Brandon (Man.) -- Biography
Subject Manitoba -- Brandon
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Mitchell, Tom, 1949-
ISBN 9781442685581
1442685581