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Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series) Book

Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series)
Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series), This study presents a unique selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence - a violence that is almost always domestic - along with a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contex, Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series) has a rating of 4 stars
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Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series), This study presents a unique selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence - a violence that is almost always domestic - along with a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contex, Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series)
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  • Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Sevententh Centruy England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies Series)
  • Written by author Susan C. Staub
  • Published by Duquesne University Press, March 2005
  • This study presents a unique selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence - a violence that is almost always domestic - along with a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contex
  • They poisoned husbands, abandoned inconvenient babies, and murdered their own children. By doing so they were reviled in the popular press, who fed a public hungry for cheap pamphlets with stories of violent women. They were also tried and executed, a pro
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2The Feme Covert uncovered : representations of murderous wives19
3Bloody mothers : representations of child murder41
4"To avoid their shame" : representations of infanticide61
5The popular press and providence : explaining the miraculous recovery of Anne Greene83
A true discourse of the practises of Elizabeth Caldwell103
The adulteresses funerall day128
Murther, Murther : or, a bloody relation how Anne Hamton, dweling in Westminster nigh London, by poyson muthered her deare husband141
A hellish murder committed by a French midwife146
A pittilesse mother, that most unnaturally at one time, murthered two of her owne children178
Blood for blood, or : justice executed for innocent blood-shed188
Fair warning to murderers of infants216
The bloudy mother240
Deeds against nature, and monsters by kinde256
Natures cruell step-dames : or, matchlesse monsters of the female sex266
Newes from the dead : or a true and exact narration of the miraculous deliverance of Anne Greene278


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