Lizzie Borden, The Girl with the Pansy Pin

Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma aspired to a life of privilege and entitlement, with wealth and social status far greater than their neighbors. In time, Lizzie grew restless, aching for that more opulent life-to reside on the Hill in a big house amongst her peers and Fall River's finest families.To her, father's riches was forbidden treasure dangling just beyond her reach-quarantined by a frugal patriarch, unable or unwilling to change his scrimping ways. Unfortunately, Andrew Jackson Borden had no intention of moving to the Hill and abandoning the home he had purchased for his second wife, nor spending the money he had worked so hard for all his life. Getting on in age, he was now planning a last will and testament to give it all away-to his wife, her stepmother.On a sultry August morning, in the naked light of day, Andrew and his elderly wife were brutally hacked and senselessly murdered. Finding the killer was no easy task. Soon the roving finger of guilt pointed at Lizzie. But she loved her father. He meant everything to her. The gold ring she had lovingly given him and that he always wore spoke to as much. Lizzie Andrew Borden would never have harmed the old fellow. Or would she?The Girl with the Pansy Pin tells the gripping story of a desirable and vivacious young Victorian woman desperately longing for adventure and a more lavish life. Instead, she feels condemned to waste away in a stale, modest existence, in a father's foregone reality, one with little chance of ever discovering love, happiness, or any measure of fulfillment. Now they have charged poor Lizzie with double murder.