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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27812176 Title: The trials of Frances Howard : fact and fiction at the court of King James Author: David Lindley Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. ISBN/ISSN: 0415052068 9780415052061 0415144248 9780415144247 OCLC:27812176

  
  

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The trials of Frances Howard : fact and fiction at the court of King James

Author:	David Lindley
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	It was the greatest scandal of the Jacobean age. In 1616, Frances Howard and her husband, the Earl of Somerset, were found guilty of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Already vilified as a consequence of the annulment of her first marriage. Frances Howard was branded 'a lewd woman', 'a wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', and has gone down in history as the epitome of female villainy. But has she been misrepresented? In a fascinating examination both of the historical evidence and of the cultural assumptions which conditioned the perception of Frances Howard, David Lindley presents important new insights into the case against her. In doing so he challenges, radically, the assumptions which have constructed Howard as a deviant woman, raising questions not just about how women were perceived in the seventeenth century, but how society still judges women today. Not just a historical biography, The Trials of Frances Howard is also a close examination of the relationship between history and literature, the place of women in society and the way in which judgements of the law are bound up with politics and ideology.  Read more...
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Subjects	Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, -- Countess of, -- 1593-1632. Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century. Trials (Murder) -- England -- History -- 17th century. View all subjects
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