Catherine Snow : a novel / Nellie P. Strowbridge.
Catherine Snow : a novel / Nellie P. Strowbridge.
By
:
Strowbridge, Nellie P., 1947-
Publication Date
:
2009
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L. : Flanker Press Limited,
Physical Description
:
359 p.
Subject Term
:
Household employees -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary
:
The harrowing tale of the last woman hanged in Newfoundland. An exotic drama in which one man’s mysterious disappearance brings a dark end to three other people. What would it take to destroy an Irish girl who had survived famine and war in Ireland, and a hazardous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, to become a servant-wife on an island where God’s truth and the Devil’s tale are entwined as tight as the strands of a rope? This novel is based on the true story of the last woman hanged in Britain’s oldest colony, the only woman in the colony to have a gruesome sentence – the ultimate desecration – carried out on her body. A novel in which truth lies suspended between fact and fiction. A haunting mystery.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781897317464
General Note
:
"A novel of the last woman hanged in Newfoundland."
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