A new book about her is either out or about to be. Her life, though it seemed promising, as a pianist, turned, and went awry. She became saddened by her beloved brother, Theodore Durant's, double murder trial, conviction, and execution, right after her departure to Germany to study her music. It was during the Victorian Era, which caused so many false accusations, and weak evidence to result in ill arrived at, verdicts. There was no such thing, as the notion of guilty beyond a shadow a doubt. She believed her brother was not guilty, he asked her not to come back home to the U.S. Surely the truth would set him free. When this did not happen, she felt guilty for the remainder of her life. Even the hangman believed he was innocent, and Durants was to be his last administered hanging, because of it. Maud changed her last name to void off connection to her brother. Turns and twists about her ambiguous sexuality, and the discovery of her relation to her brother, also doomed her to lose her trial here in the US, when she, eventually, returned. Quite a story of how society's attitudes about sex, and mores of the times, can negatively impact, and doom one's life, everafter. She lived to be an octagenarian. It seemed she lived the length of two life-times, for those times where most did not survive to that age. One life for her, and one for her brother. Part of her life, "straight" and part of her life "lesbian." Her story is a huge tale of woe.