Scotch verdict : the real-life story that inspired the children's hour / Lillian Faderman.

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"In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence of their students. Dame Helen Cumming Gordon, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student, advised her friends to remove their daughters...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Faderman, Lillian
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:	Woods, Marianne > Trials, litigation, etc. Pirie, Jane > Trials, litigation, etc. Cumming Gordon, Helen, > Lady, > -1830 > Trials, litigation, etc. Trials (Libel) > Scotland > Edinburgh. Homosexuality > Law and legislation > Scotland > History.
Genre:	Trials, litigation, etc.
Physical Description:	315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

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