The Poison Plot: A Tale Of Adultery And Murder In Colonial Newport

Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic--

• | Author: Elaine Forman Crane
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1501721313
• | ISBN-13: 9781501721311