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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nathalie Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2019-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Subjects:
law
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/3344

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