La vierge, la sorcière et le magistrat
Elizabeth Canning was a maidservant who claimed to have been held captive in a bawdy house by Mary Squires, a Gipsy woman, for almost a month. The writer and magistrate Henry Fielding became involved in the case but the inconsistencies in Canningʼs story and testimonies in favour of Squires aroused...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2019-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/3344 |