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Infamous Essex Women
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Author : Dee Gordon
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Infamous Essex Women written by Dee Gordon and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with True Crime categories.
Here are Essex Girls in a different light to the stereotype of modern public expectation. Murderers, mayhem-makers, swindlers, witches, smugglers and lustful adulteresses have played a part in the darker side of the county's history. From the thirteenth century onwards, Essex has produced more than its fair share of infamous women. Some got their comeuppance, some profited from their infamy and others were misguided, or with the benefit of hindsight, misjudged. The reader will find a plethora of women to hate, ridicule or secretly admire in Dee Gordon's new book. Some of the characters featured here might horrify or mystify, others will provoke empathy or disbelief, but all tales are authenticated by hours of research. Read, learn, squirm - and smile!
The Notorious Lady Essex
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Author : Edward Le Comte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Notorious Lady Essex written by Edward Le Comte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
"The saucy sinner Fanny Howard, Countess of Essex, and the lascivious age in which she lived, have found their perfect biography in this witty, urbane history which is at once a racy love story, a true crime-and-trial tale, and a work of original scholarship about the corrupt court of King James I. When Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, She was succeeded on the English throne by James of Scotland, who repaid one of his many debts of gratitude to the great Howard family and to the memory of the late Earl of Essex by personally blessing a marriage between the Earl's son and Fanny, the titian-haired Howard daughter. Love was not involved, only politics, and since the bride was but thirteen, her boy-husband hardly older, the marriage remained unconsummated. But when Essex returned from his studies abroad to claim his bride and his due, Fanny had not only already had one flirtation (some said it was more than that) with the Prince of Wales, she had now really fallen in love with the King's handsome Scottish favorite, Robert Carr. With the aid of witchcraft, adolescent wiliness, and some very unaristocratic friends, Fanny engaged in a passionate affair with Carr while at the same time resisting her husband's advances. In the annulment proceedings of 1613 (the scandal of the season), she claimed to be a virgin still, her husband impotent, and with the King's influence, she secured her freedom. But something even more unwholesome was going on in that scandalous season: the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury while a prisoner in the Tower of London. This minor author and major adviser to Carr had seriously opposed Fanny's planned marriage to the favorite, and received in his soup and desserts her deadly revenge. That case broke open in 1615, and Fanny and her new husband, by then the Earl and Countess of Somerset, went on trial for murder. This is the first biography of a defiant teen-ager of 350 years ago who has to be called remarkable (whatever else she is called!), and to whose story Professor Le Comte brings both wit and sympathy, a novelist's interest in psychology, a scholar's respect for the known and lesser-known facts."--Dust jacket.
Essex Girls
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Author : Karen Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Essex Girls written by Karen Bowman and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
The scandalous history of the women of Essex.
England S Witchcraft Trials
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Author : Willow Winsham
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-30
England S Witchcraft Trials written by Willow Winsham and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Social Science categories.
By the author of Accused comes “an entertaining as well as illuminating” history of Britain’s most infamous witch hunts and trials (Magnolia Review). With the echo of that chilling injunction, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” hundreds of people were accused and tried for witchcraft across England throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With fear and suspicion rife, neighbor turned against neighbor, friend against friend, as women, men, and children alike were caught up in the deadly fervor that swept through villages. From the feared covens of Pendle Forest to the victims of the notorious and fanatical Witchfinder Generals Matthew Hopkins and John Stearns, so-called witches were suspected, accused, and dragged to trial to await judgement and face their inevitable and damnable fate. In this “interesting, informative and insightful” book, historian Willow Winsham draws on a wealth of primary sources including trial transcripts, parish, and country records, and the often sensational—and highly prejudicial—pamphlets that were published after each trial. Her exhaustive research reveals just how frightening, violent, and terribly common the scourge really was, and explores the social conditions, class divisions, and religious mania that stoked its flames (All About History).
Bad Girls From History
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Author : Dee Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2017-09-30
Bad Girls From History written by Dee Gordon and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with True Crime categories.
This “lively” study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is “chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities” (Booklist). Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and order and social taboos. Read about mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes, and fanatics with hearts and souls that feature every shade of black (and gray!). From Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner—as well as less familiar names like Victorian brothel-keeper Mary Jeffries, American gambler and horse thief Belle Starr, and La Voisin, the seventeenth-century Queen of all Witches in France—you’ll find a variety of women from the daring and outrageous to the desperate to the downright evil. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just rebellious? Read their stories and decide. “[A] rollicking survey of 100 female renegades . . . this compendium of historical trivia is a lot of fun to read.” —Publishers Weekly Includes photos and illustrations
Humoral Wombs On The Shakespearean Stage
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Author : Amy Kenny
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-21
Humoral Wombs On The Shakespearean Stage written by Amy Kenny and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.
A Notorious Woman
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Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2016-03-09
A Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth J. Clapp and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with History categories.
During her long career as a public figure in Jacksonian America, Anne Royall was called everything from an "enemy of religion" to a "Jackson man" to a "common scold." In her search for the source of such strong reactions, Elizabeth Clapp has uncovered the story of a widely read woman of letters who asserted her right to a political voice without regard to her gender. Widowed and in need of a livelihood following a disastrous lawsuit over her husband’s will, Royall decided to earn her living through writing--first as a travel writer, journeying through America to research and sell her books, and later as a journalist and editor. Her language and forcefully expressed opinions provoked people at least as much as did her inflammatory behavior and aggressive marketing tactics. An ardent defender of American liberties, she attacked the agents of evangelical revivals, the Bank of the United States, and corruption in government. Her positions were frequently extreme, directly challenging the would-be shapers of the early republic’s religious and political culture. She made many enemies, but because she also attracted many supporters, she was not easily silenced. The definitive account of a passionate voice when America was inventing itself, A Notorious Woman re-creates a fascinating stage on which women’s roles, evangelical hegemony, and political involvement were all contested.
Old And New London The City Ancient And Modern
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Author : Walter Thornbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Old And New London The City Ancient And Modern written by Walter Thornbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with London (England). categories.
Old And New London A Narrative Of Its History Its People And Its Places
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Author : George Walter Thornbury
language : en
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Old And New London A Narrative Of Its History Its People And Its Places The City Ancient And Modern
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Author : Walter Thornbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Old And New London A Narrative Of Its History Its People And Its Places The City Ancient And Modern written by Walter Thornbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with London (England) categories.