‘Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, loss of life, and the dangers of intolerance.’–Bustle

In 1892, America was enthusiastic about a adolescent murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that stunned the nation–it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell decided to pass as a guy to be able to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their like letters were found out, they were forbidden from ever speaking once again. Freda adjusted to the fate with an simplicity that about Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter–and her father’s razor soon went lacking. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée’s neck. Her same-sex like was deemed insane by her father that very night time, and doctors agreed: This is a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was extended to accommodate nationwide interest, Alice spent a few months in jail–including the night that three of her fellow prisoners had been lynched (a meeting which captured the interest of journalist and civil privileges activist Ida B. Wells). After a jury of ‘the finest men in Memphis’ announced Alice crazy, she was remanded for an asylum, where she died under mysterious situations just a few years later.