Innocence and guilt, victims and prosecutors: domestic and social dramas in Mary Moore’s Wonderfull news from the north (1650)
Baratta, Luca
In Wonderfull News from the North (1650), Mary Moore recounts the story of the bewitchment of her eleven-year-old daughter Margaret Duchamp to en-courage the legal pursuit of the cunning-man John Hutton and Mrs Dorothy Swinow whom the woman believes to be the culprits of the tragedy afflicting her family. The complexit...
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