Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "the Children's Hour" by Lillian Faderman

Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "the Children's Hour"

Lillian Faderman

315 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

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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 stu...

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