Walk Towards The Gallows : The Tragedy Of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

Kramer, Reinhold & Tom Mitchell

Toronto, Ontario, 2002

By Oxford University Press
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Details

Card covers, 318 pages, 5x8 in. [13x20 cm.], B&W photographs.
Condition

Covers sunned, with moderate surface wear.
Notes

On July 5, 1899, 21-year-old Hilda Blake, an English orphan immigrant working as a domestic servant in Brandon, Manitoba, shot and killed her employer's wife, Mary Lane. Convicted of murder, Blake was hanged on December 27, 1899, becoming one of the few women executed in Canadian history.

Drawing on a collection of historical documents, including court records, correspondence, newspaper accounts, personal writings and Blake's own poem, My Downfall, Kramer and Mitchell reconstruct the life of this woman.

Notes adapted from the publisher's description.
ISBN

9780195416862
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