The case of Mistress Mary Hampson : her story of marital abuse and defiance in seventeenth-century England / Jessica L. Malay.
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0804790604
- 9780804790604
- Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698 -- Marriage
- Hampson, Mary, 1639-1698
- Abused wives -- England -- Biography
- Wife abuse -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Marriage -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Femmes victimes de violence -- Angleterre -- Biographies
- Femmes -- Violence envers -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Mariage -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Abused wives
- Marriage
- Wife abuse
- England
- 1600-1699
- 942.06092 B 23
- CT788.H275 M35 2014
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Includes bibliographical references.
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).
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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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