Word: madwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his death she was variously pictured as a monster, a depraved, ugly, unscrupulous plotter, a madwoman. In Joseph Shearing's short biography this daughter of an impoverished provincial noble is presented, with unqualified admiration, as pure, eloquent, composed, inspired by the noblest of human motives, facing both her crime and its consequences with unearthly serenity. Seven years of seclusion in a convent had deepened her knowledge of and admiration for the noble heroes of antiquity, without giving her an understanding of her own time. On July 10, after giving some of her cherished possessions to her friends...