Interesting Facts About Lizzie Borden

Thanks to Rich for the inspiration...

Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and step-mother, but we love the little poem anyway, don't we?

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.

According to Wikipedia, "The anonymous rhyme was made up by a writer as an alluring little tune to sell newspapers even though in reality her stepmother suffered 9 blows, her father 11."

Comments

Old Knudsen said…

From what I can remember of Lizzie, she was a nice quiet girl always polite.

12:43 AM

Ms Mac said…

When my Mum started out in the hairdressing biz, she was sent by her employers to loads of different beauty courses in local hotels. Every time we drove past a certain hotel on the way to Kirkcaldy (A Scottish town) she would tell us, "And that's where I went to the Lizzie Borden (Elizabeth Arden) school of beauty".

4:45 AM

Scout said…

See, isn't it amazing? Here was this woman who may have done nothing at all, and we all know her name 100 years later.

Ms Mac, I actually laughed out loud at the beauty school thing. Very funny!!

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