{"product_id":"alice-freda-forever","title":"Alice + Freda Forever","description":"Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.\"--BustleIn 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter--and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail--including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells). After a jury of \"the finest men in Memphis\" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.  Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes.","brand":"Lerner Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57586309202246,"sku":"9781936976607","price":20.05,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/6d6b4e5212b2a039c36ed27b7320d45c495f680f24d100dec5c8cc4b365511a2.jpg?v=1791882090","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/alice-freda-forever","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}