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In a film by a director who used this person’s name, Phoenix Radio and Radio Ragazza work with Adelaide Norris, the leader of the Women’s Army. A circus poster featuring a tiger entices a young version (15[1])of this woman in a story by Angela Carter, who also wrote of the “dementing heat” on the “fourth of August” in a story (15[1])titled for her hometown that ends the collection Black Venus. This person’s name was adopted (15[1])by the feminist director of the 1980s indie films Working Girls and Born in Flames. (15[2])This (15[1])person attempted to (*) buy prussic acid to “clean a sealskin coat” after allegedly being angered (-5[1])by the killing of pigeons in her family’s barn. This resident of Fall River (10[2])is the subject (10[1])of a skipping-rope rhyme in which she sees (10[1])“what she had done,” then gives her second victim 41 “whacks.” For 10 points, an 1892 “trial of the century” acquitted what woman of ax-murdering her parents? ■END■ (10[2])

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