The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th-Century Crime of Passion

Chronicles the life of Italian seamstress Maria Barbella, who, in 1895, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for the murder of her former...more

Chronicles the life of Italian seamstress Maria Barbella, who, in 1895, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for the murder of her former lover, a man who had raped and abandoned her, and the campaign to save her from the newly invented electric chair. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.   less