1st Edition
Mary Carleton Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 6
By Mihoko Suzuki
Copyright 2006
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mary Carleton, commonly known as the German Princess, was a scandalous celebrity in Restoration London. Her notoriety arose from her 1663 trial and acquittal for bigamy, which became the occasion of the publication of The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. Here she narrates her version of her life as a 'German Princess', the daughter of the Earl of Cologne, though by most accounts she was born Mary... Read more
Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Mary Carleton, The Case of Madam Mary Carleton (1663); The Arraignment, Tryal and Examination of Mary Moders, Otherwise Stedman, now Carleton (1663); John Carleton, Replication, Or Certain Vindicatory Depositions (1663); T.P. [Thomas Porter], A Witty Combat: Or, The Female Victor; F.B., Vercingetorixa: Or, The Germane Princess Reduc'd to an English Habit (1663); J.G. [John Goodwin], The Memoires of Mary Carleton (1673)
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).
