"They Won't Hang a Woman"

by Maxine McCall

If you want the latest and best information on Frankie Silver
see Maxine McCall's book "They Won't Hang a Woman" Heritage Edition.

It's well worth the money, a Frankie Silver education book.

From the inside cover of the book which is copyright © 2008.

    "One of the most remote figures in Burke County
    history is Frankie Silver, who was hanged in
    Morganton, July 12, 1833.

    For well over a century she has remained just a
    name -- a tragic name, but little else.

    It remained for Maxine McCall to give Frankie
    her day in court in a dramatic presentation that
    has brought to life the central figure in a stirring
    human drama.

    Mrs. McCall deserves the thanks of Burke
    County for helping students of local hi story to
    regard Frankie Silver as a human being, even an
    understandable human. Any other interpretation
    would have pictured Frankie as a mad, almost
    maniacal killer who had been a jealous, shrewish
    wife, if she had actually been guilty of the pre-
    meditation that is an essential element of first
    degree murder.

    The title, They Won't Hang a Woman, is derived
    from the opinion prevailing when the young woman
    was brought to trial. Mrs. McCall presents the case of
    poor Frankie in such a moving way that her hearers
    (or readers) are inclined to think that Frankie
    is entitled to a new trial even now."

         From a News-Herald press review
            covering the debut of
            They Won't Hang a Woman
            -  a dramatized reading by the author
            for the Burke County Historical Society
            in Morganton, North Carolina, 1971

Separate Fact from Fiction about the Frankie Sliver case:

For a must read copy of the book:

They Won't Hang a Woman is available in Morganton
at The Muses and at the History Museum of Burke County;
and, in Valdese, at the Rock School Arts Gallery.

Copies may, also, be ordered from
C & M Resources
P.O. Box 487
Drexel, NC  28619 

Phone 828 437 0774

Email - djmcm60@hci.net

See the web site www.mccallsbooks.com,
or write, for ordering information,
including price and shipping costs.