Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Newes from the dead

Oclc number

137222734

Responsibility statement

Mary Hooper

Sub title

being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665

Summary

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn

Target audience

adolescent

resource.variantTitle

News from the dead

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