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Tonya Mitchell

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Born
in Richmond, IN, The United States
November 13

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Historical Fiction, Mystery, Suspense

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Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Agatha Ch ...more

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Ever since reading Jane Eyre in high school, Tonya has been drawn to dark stories, particularly of the gothic variety. Her influences include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker. More contemporarily, she loves the work of Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie, Victoria Holt, Margaret Atwood, and Laura Purcell.

When she landed on a story about a woman who pretended to be insane in order to write a newspaper story, she knew she’d landed on something she was meant to write.

Tonya received her BA in journalism from Indiana University. Her short fiction has appeared in The Copperfield Review, Words Undone, and The Front Porch Review, as well as in various anthologies, including Furtive Dalliance, Welcome to Elsewhere, and Glimmer and Other S ...more

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The Arsenic Eater's Wife
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A Feigned Madness
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The Real Woman Behind The Arsenic Eater’s Wife

Just who was the infamous woman behind the alleged fatal poisoning of her husband in Liverpool, England in the late 19thÌýcentury? Why did the trial fuel such grist for the gossip mill on both sides of the Atlantic?

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The woman center stage in The Arsenic Eater’s Wife was born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in 1862 to monied, well-connected parents. Her mother, Caroline, a Northerner from Massachusetts,

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