Women & History: Voices of Early Modern EnglandValerie Frith Through private letters and journals, published memoirs and reflections, trial transcripts and court depositions, Women and History illuminates the world of 17th- and 18th-century English women. |
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She at first denied | 19 |
The great danger she had reason to believe she was | 81 |
Hardpressed to make ends meet | 103 |
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