Elizabeth De Wolfe's research featured in Sun Journal story

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of History, was the focus of an August 6, 2011 feature story in the Sun Journal (Lewiston), which highlighted the research she conducted for her 2008 book, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories. The story was based on a lecture that De Wolfe presented at Museum L-A in July.

The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories looks at the gruesome mid 19th-century death of a young Saco, Maine factory girl, who died from a botched abortion. The murder trial garnered extensive newspaper coverage and was the basis for several popular fictional accounts. The book was awarded the 2008 Book Award from the New England Historical Association, the regional chapter of the national professional association of historians. De Wolfe's other books include Domestic Broils: Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the Narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer and Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer’s Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867.

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