Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

by Richard White

Book Overview

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324004339
• ISBN13: 9781324004332
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"