Case of Mistress Mary Hampson - Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England

Zusatztext "This is a remarkably detailed and engaging study that bears witness to the authority that seventeenth-century women could find in the written word." Informationen zum Autor Jessica Malay is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Klappentext Jessica Malay is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Zusammenfassung This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past.

Product details

• Authors: Malay Jessica, Jessica Malay, Jessica L (University of Huddersfield Malay, Jessica L. Malay
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2014
• EAN: 9780804786287
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8628-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies