In our electronic age of newspeak, an Internet search for “Nance O’Neil” will bring four words—a quasi-sentence to describe a life. These four words will lead anyone who is not a student of theater history to dismiss a once brilliant star of the American stage to a tittering naughty corner of the imagination.
By Kathleen A. Carbone

A recent Google Alert for “Lizzie Borden” led me on an interesting adventure. The notice was a simple invitation to attend a museum anniversary party on February 27, 2010, at the Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum in Brighton, Massachusetts.
By Stefani Koorey, Ph.D.

There exists a staggering number of aspects to Lizzie
Borden. I have come to appreciate her as the patron
saint of those who have suffered egregious injustice by
their parents.
By Mark Venaglia

To those who have been faithfully following the
escapades of our titular triumvirate, we offer this
brief foreword, in explanation of our advance in their
personal histories—herein, particularly that of Miss
Genia Davenport, who is expeditiously fashioning an
illustrious career “on the boards,” as the parlance of the
Great White Way would have it.
By David Marshall James

The dough languished in the pan in front of the fire as Eliza set about completing other assigned duties. It did not rise as it should. Nevertheless, it was portioned into rice-sized dumplings for the evening dinner. They were quite unlike the dumplings she made just the day before.
By Melissa Allen

A new film about the Lizzie Borden case is in postproduction, with principal shooting completed.

Human beings are fallible creatures. We are not only
fallible but can be utterly disrespectful of our fellows
and even vicious towards them (as well as toward nonhuman animals). The Borden murders, regardless of who committed them, are only one example among an endless number of crimes that show how cruelly people can harm other people.

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