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Author Malay, Jessica L., author.

Title The case of Mistress Mary Hampson : her story of marital abuse and defiance in seventeenth-century England / Jessica L. Malay.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction : early modern marriage and the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson -- A plain and compendious relation of the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson (London, 1684) -- The Hampson marriage : competing stories -- Afterlife of a marriage : accusations and recriminations -- The widow Hampson and her daughters -- Conclusions -- Appendix : letters from Mary Hampson to William Trumbull (1680-1681).
Summary The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of.
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Subject Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698 -- Marriage.
Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698.
Marriage.
Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698.
Abused wives -- England -- Biography.
Abused wives.
England.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Contains (work), Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698. Plain and compendious relation of the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson.
Other Form: Print version: Malay, Jessica L. Case of Mistress Mary Hampson. 9780804786287 0804786283 (DLC) 2013038765
ISBN 0804790604 (electronic book)
9780804790604 (electronic book)
9780804786287 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804786283 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804790550 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0804790558 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. YBP11616112