Newes from the dead
Subtitle: being a true story of Anne Green, hanged for infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, restored to the world and died again 1665
By: Mary Hooper.
Edition: 1st american ed.
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596433557
Subjects: Greene, Anne, -- b. 1628 -- Juvenile fiction; Greene, Anne, -- b. 1628 -- Fiction; Death -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Pregnancy -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.