"Seven pamphlets related to the sensational seventeenth-century bigamy trial of Mary Carleton, who may have saved herself from hanging by her eloquent self-defense"--
Mary Carleton (1642-73) was a woman accused of marrying under a false identity while masquerading as a German princess, and the author of several pamphlets defending herself. Megan Matchinske is an emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is the author of multiple books, including Women Writing History in Early Modern England.
