Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue bet

Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an inte

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