Book Review
Branson explores the lives of two women: Ann Carson and Mary Clarke. Branson writes about these two women in five fact-based chapters. Interesting parts of this book include the hearings of Ann Carson and Richard Smith for John Carson’s slaying. Ann Carson’s successive hearing for the attempt to kidnap Pennsylvania’s Governor to protect Smith from execution. Ann Carson’s trial for using fake bills at the shop and. Clarke, a widow, was a journalist and an author of plays. She earned her living from these two. The two women the author used are opposite of one another. While one worked and made her living from genuine work, the other was a typical notoriety. The Jury could not believe that a woman of Clarke’s stature would commit such crimes. However, they would easily believe Carson, who was a middle-class woman, to have pass counterfeit notes over the counter to a shopkeeper. As Branson puts it, the two women circumstances, “must have been familiar to some people: middling women, fallen on …show more content…
Branson used biographies and diaries to write her story. She uses the two-character to express her story and depict the socioeconomic differences she wanted to express in her society. For instance, she shows how the Court jury could not believe Clarke was capable of crime when they quickly accepted Carson’s use of counterfeit notes over the counter and even had sent to jail.
The book Dangerous to Know is an interesting narrative book. It revolves around money, sex, and notoriety. Branson sense of style as she brings out the above themes makes her story flow and enjoyable to read. In addition, the court arguments were full of humor and full of suspense. Details such as Carson’s children identity do not emerge until they are made public. It is such uncertainty that makes the story flow and
Branson explores the lives of two women: Ann Carson and Mary Clarke. Branson writes about these two women in five fact-based chapters. Interesting parts of this book include the hearings of Ann Carson and Richard Smith for John Carson’s slaying. Ann Carson’s successive hearing for the attempt to kidnap Pennsylvania’s Governor to protect Smith from execution. Ann Carson’s trial for using fake bills at the shop and. Clarke, a widow, was a journalist and an author of plays. She earned her living from these two. The two women the author used are opposite of one another. While one worked and made her living from genuine work, the other was a typical notoriety. The Jury could not believe that a woman of Clarke’s stature would commit such crimes. However, they would easily believe Carson, who was a middle-class woman, to have pass counterfeit notes over the counter to a shopkeeper. As Branson puts it, the two women circumstances, “must have been familiar to some people: middling women, fallen on …show more content…
Branson used biographies and diaries to write her story. She uses the two-character to express her story and depict the socioeconomic differences she wanted to express in her society. For instance, she shows how the Court jury could not believe Clarke was capable of crime when they quickly accepted Carson’s use of counterfeit notes over the counter and even had sent to jail.
The book Dangerous to Know is an interesting narrative book. It revolves around money, sex, and notoriety. Branson sense of style as she brings out the above themes makes her story flow and enjoyable to read. In addition, the court arguments were full of humor and full of suspense. Details such as Carson’s children identity do not emerge until they are made public. It is such uncertainty that makes the story flow and