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Lasting infamy: Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler, reviewed

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

Booth Karen Joy Fowler

Serpent’s Tail, pp.470, 18.99

Were it not for an event on the night of 14 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth would be remembered, if at all, as an actor; brother of the more famous Edwin, and son of Junius Brutus – a footnote to the history of American theatre. But that night Booth leaped on to the stage of Ford’s theatre, Washington D.C.,

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