The poison plot : a tale of adultery and murder in colonial Newport

Book 2018

"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 culture...

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Adultery Rhode Island Newport History 18th century Case studies

Arnold, Benedict, 1683-1739

Arnold, Mary, 1702-1769

Newport (R.I.) Social conditions 18th century

Poisoning Rhode Island Newport History 18th century Case studies

Rhode Island History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775