Lizzie Borden Took an Ax...

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Lizzie Borden, 1890

A sepia-toned image of Lizzie Borden's face is overlaid with a bright white axe shape, containing blue text reading really a monster? Blurred text and stains appear in the background.

Infographic titled Lizzie Borden rhyme featuring the famous rhyme about Lizzie Borden taking an ax, highlighted in yellow on a parchment background, with surrounding fact boxes about the Borden murders, trial, and details of the victims' injuries. Rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

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Kate Lohnes
Kathleen Lohnes was an editorial intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2017 and 2018. She received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and creative writing in 2020 at the University of Iowa.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Media added.	Meg Matthias	Sep 18, 2026
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen Lucia Barnum	Aug 26, 2026