The Self-fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton's Lives

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Ashgate, 2004 - 338 Seiten
Carleton began her career as a heroine of Restoration popular culture in 1663 when her husband prosecuted her for four weeks of bigamy. She claimed to be a member of the German aristocracy and performed the role so convincingly that she was acquitted and her claim accepted socially. In the next ten

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Mary Jo Kietzman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

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