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    Mary Frith, Moll Cutpurse, and the Development of an Early Modern Criminal Celebrity by Lauren Liebe

    Published 2021-03-01
    “…-1659) is one of the most intriguing and well-documented female criminals of early modern London, both in court records and in literature. Popular perceptions of her criminality were shaped not by her crimes themselves, but by Frith’s cultivation of her own version of female celebrity, which drew upon and reframed her criminal actions. …”
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    "Wife. Mother. Criminal(?)": Representations of Abortion in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake (2004) by Esther Pérez-Villalba

    Published 2009-12-01
    “… Set in the early 1950s in a working-class area in London, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (2004) revolves around the life of the protagonist Vera and the discovery of her best-kept secret: her role as a backstreet abortionist. …”
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