[PW] ? Lizzie Borden Rhyme Dating (Quotation Query #648)

[Dennis Lien]

At 03:40 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote:
>A further search on Google books brings up a preview of the book,
>_Murder on Trial, 1620-2002_, which has a chapter that says that
>children were singing the rhyme at the 1893 Columbia Exhibition in
>Chicago that summer when the trial took place.  Unfortunately, the
>footnote (4) that tells where this information came from is not included
>in the preview.
>http://snipurl.com/2153z  [books_google_com]
>
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>Dana Dalrymple
>Reference Librarian
>Spokane Public Library


The footnote in MURDER ON TRIAL refers to page 174 of this book:

Author          Schlereth, Thomas J.
Title           Victorian America : transformations in everyday life, 
1876-1915 / Thomas J. Schlereth.
Edition         1st HarperPerennial ed.
Published       New York : HarperPerennial, 1992.

and on page 174 does make this claim in almost identical words.  Unfortunately,
while his book is fairly heavily footnoted, he doesn't offer a footnote for
this assertion.

Schlereth teaches at Notre Dame; here's his contact information:

http://al.nd.edu/resources-for/faculty-and-staff/faculty-list/bio/tschlere/


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu