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 of this woman in a story by Angela Carter, who also wrote of the “dementing heat” on the “fourth of August” in a story titled for her hometown that ends the collection Black Venus. This person’s name was adopted by the feminist director of the 1980s indie films Working Girls and Born in Flames. This person attempted to (*) buy prussic acid to “clean a sealskin coat” after allegedly being angered by the killing of pigeons in her family’s barn. This resident of Fall River is the subject of a skipping-rope rhyme in which she sees “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■
ANSWER: Lizzie Borden [or Lizzie Andrew Borden] (The stories are “Lizzie’s Tiger” and “The Fall River Axe Murders” by Angela Carter.)
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