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Tables of Contents for The Daughters of Discordia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
9
8
Denise Duhamel
One: The Instigator
The Banishment
Myth---Discordia, goddess of error, banished by Zeus
17
4
Two: The Act
Difficult
1638---Dorothy Talbye, strangler, hanged
21
2
Sheep and Fodder
1697---Felon, released from prison
23
2
The Miserable Sinner
1787---Alice Clifton, slave, infanticide, hanged
25
2
My Father Sold Me to Pay His Debts
1731---Murderer, burned
27
2
The Sea Witch of Billingsgate: To Her Betrayer
18th-century legend---Goody Hallett, sorceress, sank Black Sam Bellamy's ship
29
2
God Is a Cowboy Who Rides a Lame Horse
1865---Mary Harris, murderer, incarcerated
31
2
Homestead Claim No. 2003
1889---Ella Watson, brothel owner and cattle rustler, lynched
33
2
The KGB Sex School for Spies: Men Called ``Ravens,'' Women ``Swallows''
1971---Miriam Morales, Treason, murdered
35
3
Nine Stones
1987---Marybeth Tinning, serial infanticide, imprisoned
38
11
Three: The Cell
The Disappearing Woman
1855---Karana, indecent behavior, desecrating religious property, locked up
49
3
By the Train Station at Astapovo
1919---Countess Tolstoy, alleged adultery, exiled from her husband's deathbed
52
2
The Watch Book
1863---Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, religious heretic, sent to insane asylum by her husband without trial
54
3
Suffrage, 1917: Imprisoned for Obstructing Traffic
Suffragette, imprisoned
57
4
After Twenty-one Years
1883---Vera Figner, political terrorist, imprisoned for life
61
2
Kim's Story
1989---Kim Hyon Hui, terrorist, sentenced to death
63
6
Four: The Innocent/The Guilty
The Arsenic Eater
1840---Hannah Kinney, poisoner, acquitted
69
2
My Heart Beats in Wild Rapture for You: Come Prepared to Stay Forever
1866---Belle Gunness, serial killer, escaped
71
2
The Snow-White Dove: ``Helpless, Hapless, and Forlorn''
1850---Ann Simpson, poisoner, acquitted
73
2
When I Was an Eggshell
1991---Pamala Pressman Sainsbury, murderer, acquitted
75
3
The Almighty Fireball
1992---Kiranjit Ahluwalia, murderer, imprisoned
78
2
Ma Barker and Her Gang: Herman, Arthur, Freddy, Karpas (Creepy) & Loyd (Doc)
1872--1935---Ma Barker (Arizona Donnie Clark) murderer, kidnapper, bank robber, shot in a raid
80
4
Acknowledgments
84
2
About the Author
86
2
Colophon
88