Accidents of providence
By: Stacia M. Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780547490809
Subjects: Fiction; Unmarried mothers; Levellers; Trials (Murder); History
Description: During the mid-seventeenth-century persecution of unwed mothers in the aftermath of Charles I's execution, Rachel Lockyer is arrested and tried for murder when a dead child is found in the woods after her affair with Leveller William Walwyn.