1st Edition
Elizabeth Cellier Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 5
By Mihoko Suzuki
Copyright 2006
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the 'Popish midwife', became the focus of a large number of pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield's rejoinder, and various anonymous satiric attacks against her. She was tried twice: the first time for the more serious charge of treason, and the second for libel,... Read more
Contents:Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Texts by Elizabeth Cellier: Malice Defeated (1680); The Matchless Rogue (1680); A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital (1687); To Dr ___ (1687). Texts about Elizabeth Cellier: The Triall of Elizabeth Cellier (1680); The tryal and sentence of Elizabeth Cellier (1680). Thomas Dangerfield: Tho. Dangerfield's Answer (1680); Miles Prance: Mr Prance's Answer to Mrs Cellier's Libel (1680); Modesty Triumphing Over Impudence (1680); The Scarlet Beast Stripped Naked; William Fletcher, An Answer to Malice Defeated (1680); The Midwife Unmask'd (1680); The Pope's Letter to Maddam Cellier (1680); A Letter from the Lady Creswell (1680); A True Copy of a Letter of Consolation Sent to Nat. the Printer (1681) Mistriss Celler's Lamentation (1681); The New Popish Sham-Plot discovered (1682).
Biography
Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author of Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688 (2003); and co-editor of Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (2002) and Women's Political Writings, 1610-1715 (2007).
