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A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England  Audiobook, by Richard Jay Hutto Play Audiobook Sample

A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England Audiobook

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Read By: Ralph Lister Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781094023755

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

16

Longest Chapter Length:

58:09 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11:09 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

30:30 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England—for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison—in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband.

Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick’s husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.

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“Rick Hutto does a great job of organizing a myriad of facts in this intriguing story of a celebrated miscarriage of justice, and he presents them masterfully as a compelling read.“

— Mary S. Lovell, author of The Riviera Set

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  • “An epic—a transatlantic, Victorian melodrama of the highest order.”

    — Maureen Emerson, author of Riviera Dreaming
  • “A scrupulously detailed dissection of one of the most intriguing cases in British judicial history—with a surprising twist at the end.”

    — Anne de Courcy, author of The Viceroy’s Daughters

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About Richard Jay Hutto

Richard Jay Hutto served as White House appointments secretary to the Carter family and was chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts. He is an internationally recognized speaker and historical consultant, often appearing in televised adaptations of his work. He lives in Macon, Georgia.

About Ralph Lister

Ralph Lister is an actor, voice actor, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He spent fifteen years in London theater before moving to the United States to focus on film and television. He has held numerous roles in Shakespeare and modern dramas, as well as starring roles in independent films. His voice and character work can be heard in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearland 13 Going On 30. He lives in Los Angeles.