Jane Wenham

Standard Name: Wenham, Jane
Used Form: Jane Wenman

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Textual Features Carola Oman
Her introduction disappointingly says nothing personal, nothing about Oman's association with Hertfordshire. It is in effect a biography, thorough and sometimes humorous, of Chauncy, taking in his forebears, descendants, and legal career. His topographical work...

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4 March 1712: Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose...

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4 March 1712

Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose manifestation was flying through the air) at Hertford; the jury found her guilty, but the judge reprieved her and later got her pardoned.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Bostridge, Ian. Witchcraft and its Transformations, c. 1650-1750. Clarendon Press, 1997.
132-6, 156

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