Sophie Treadwell, Machinal

Miriam López-Rodríguez (Universidad de Malaga)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1928

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United States (Country of Origin)

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In 1914, while working as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin, Sophie Treadwell covered the trial against a woman named Leah Alexander, who stood accused of murdering her lover, J. D. Van Baalen. Two years later, writing for the New York American, Treadwell wrote a series of about sixteen articles while covering her second sensational murder case. This time Treadwell described the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Mohr, accused of hiring three men to murder her adulterous husband. Even before the trials began, the public opinion was clearly against these women who dared defied patriarchal notions of what a woman should be. In spite of the evidences proving the abuse suffered by both defendants, Alexander and Mohr, at …

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Citation: López-Rodríguez, Miriam. "Machinal". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 October 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16862, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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