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Hooper, Mary,

Newes from the dead : being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665 / Mary Hooper. - 1st American ed. - New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008. - 263 p. ; 22cm.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

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Death
Household employees
Executions and executioners
Pregnancy

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