Newes from the Dead
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Greene, Anne, 1628- -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Executions and executioners -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction.
Greene, Anne, 1628- -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Executions and executioners -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 1110L
ISBN:
9781596433557
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Hooper | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"Being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665"--Half title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260).