Newes from the Dead
By: by Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780370329482
Subjects: Fiction; Illegitimacy; History; Judicial error; Hanging
Description: In 1650 Anne Green, a young servant girl, gave birth prematurely to an illegitimate child. The baby died and Anne was falsely accused of infanticide. In front of a large crowd she was hanged and then carried to the College of Physicians to be dissected for medical science. But as Anne's corpse lay on the table and the doctors assembled, a strange rattle was heard in her throat. Could she still be alive? Suggested level: secondary.