Hyper Reactionary Offspring Response to Victorian Era Parental Micro-Management Styles
who hasn't heard the jump rope rhyme ...
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Lizzie was a real person.
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927) was very active in church, taught Sunday School, member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and more.
She was from a wealthy, "proper" Victorian family.
From all reports, it would appear her father & stepmother were VERY controlling & allowed very little (if any) freedom to the children in making life choices
Interestingly, she was acquitted of the hatchet murders of father & stepmother on 4 August 1892 (Lizzie allegedly commited these murders when was a grown woman of 32) ...
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
~ from the notes of Lady Victorian Historian
