We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : William Heinemann, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Whakaahuatanga: 497 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781785151996
- 1785151991
- 9781785151989
- Murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
- Britton, Jane, 1945-1969
- Harvard University -- Students
- Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
- Murder victims -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography
- Women graduate students -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
- Women in higher education -- United States -- Social conditions
- Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States
- 364.152/3092 23
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-499).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The dead was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started an investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. We Keep The Dead Close is a narrative of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history.
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