Alice Mitchell/Freda Ward Timeline
1892-01-25: Alice Mitchell cuts the throat of Freda Ward in Memphis, TN, after Ward rejects Mitchell for a male suitor.
1892-01-27: "United in Death: A Tragedy Almost Identical with that of Monday: A Girl's Love for a Girl: How It Caused a Murder and a Suicide Twenty Years Ago." Memphis Public Ledger, January 27, 1892, 1.
1892-02-11: "The Plea for Bail." Memphis Public Ledger, February 11, 2.
1892-02-14: Memphis Commercial. 1892a. "Like Miss Mitchell ... An Infatuation Which Existed Between Two School Girls." Memphis Commercial, February 14, 13.
1892-02-17: Memphis Appeal Avalanche. 1892. "Bernhardt At The Jail: The Great Actress Wanted to See Miss Alice Mitchell." Mernphis Appeal Avalanche, February 17, 4.
1892-02-19: "Like the Memphis Case: Another Story Which Furnishes Rich Food for the Gossips." Memphis Commercial, February 19, 5.
1892-02-24: "Unfolded, Revelation of Facts Surrounding Freda Ward's Death .... Similar Cases Recalled." Memphis Commercial, February 24, 1-3.
1892-03-23: Memphis Weekly Commercial. 1892. "A Strange Affection, Addie Phillips Shows Traces of Alice Mitchell-Fondness, Another Case Partially Paralleling the Fa- mous One." Memphis Weekly Commercial, March 23, 12.
1892-07-19: "Sane or Insane? Is She Cruel Murderess or Irresponsible Lunatic?" Memphis Commercial, July 19, 1.
1892-07-20: "Still in Doubt, Alice Mitchell's Sanity Not Yet Determined." Memphis Commercial, July 20, 1.
1895-00-00: Carhart, J. W., M.D. 1895. Norma Trist: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes. Austin, Tex.: Eugene von Boeckman. Tags: Alice Mitchell
1895-00-00: Freeman, Mary Wilkins. [1895] 1927. "The Long Arm." In American Detective Stories, ed. Carolyn Wells, 134-78. New York: Oxford University Press.
1895-00-00: Hatch, Mary P. 1895. The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstock. New York: G. W. Dillingham.
1899-00-00: Krafft-Ebing, Richard von. 1899. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study. London: Rebman.
1901-00-00: Ellis, Havelock. 1901. Sexual Inversion. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
1930-09-07: Coppock, Paul. 1930. "Memphis' Strangest Love Murder Had All Girl Cast." Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 7, sec. 4, p. 5.
1950-00-00: Cauldwell, D. 0., M.D. 1950. "Lesbian Love Murder." Sexology 16 (12): 773-79.
1961-11-13: Howard, Edwin. 1961. "Resurrected Ballad Recalls a Strange Memphis Killing." Memphis Press Scimitar, November 13.
1976-00-00: Katz, Jonathan Ned. 1976. Gay Arnerican History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. New York: Crowell.
1981-00-00: Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Morrow.
1982-00-00: Chauncey, George, Jr. 1982-83. "From Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance.''' Salnwgund1 58- 59:114-46.
1983-00-00: Katz, Jonathan Ned. 1983. Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary. New York: Harper & Row.
1983-06-00 (Summer): Duggan, Lisa. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1993 Summer, vol. 18, no. 4, 791-814.
1985-00-00: Jeffreys, Sheila. 1985. The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930. London: Pandora.
1989-00-00: Kennedy, Elizabeth, and Madeline Davis. 1989. "The Reproduction of ButchFem Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach." In Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ed. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons, 241-56. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1992-00-00: Duggan, Lisa. 1992. "The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sexual Science and Sexual Identity in Turn of the Century America." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
See also Alice Mitchell Murders Freda Ward in Memphis, 1892.