Mihoko Suzuki: 3 books
Subordinate Subjects
Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of political...
Mary Carleton
Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Mary Carleton, commonly known as the German Princess, was a scandalous celebrity in Restoration London. Her notoriety arose from her 1663 trial and acquittal for bigamy, which became the occasion of the publication of The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. Here she narrates her version of her life as a...
Elizabeth Cellier
Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the 'Popish midwife', became the focus of a large number of pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield's rejoinder, and various anonymous satiric attacks against her. She...