Newes from the dead : being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665 /
Hooper, Mary
Newes from the dead : being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665 / Mary Hooper. - London Definitions 2009 - 307 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
In 1650, Anne Green, a servant girl, gave birth to an illegitimate child. Sadly the baby died & poor Anne was accused of infanticide. In front of a crowd she was hanged & then taken to the College of Physicians to be dissected. But as Anne's body lay on the table & the doctors assembled, a strange rattle was heard in her throat.
9781862303638 (pbk.) : 1862303630 9781862303638
Greene, Anne, b. 1628 - Fiction
Illegitimacy - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
Judicial error - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
Hanging - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
823.91
Newes from the dead : being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665 / Mary Hooper. - London Definitions 2009 - 307 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
In 1650, Anne Green, a servant girl, gave birth to an illegitimate child. Sadly the baby died & poor Anne was accused of infanticide. In front of a crowd she was hanged & then taken to the College of Physicians to be dissected. But as Anne's body lay on the table & the doctors assembled, a strange rattle was heard in her throat.
9781862303638 (pbk.) : 1862303630 9781862303638
Greene, Anne, b. 1628 - Fiction
Illegitimacy - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
Judicial error - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
Hanging - Great Britain - History - 17th century - Fiction
823.91