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Agnes of Eltham. Elizabeth Amadas. Mary Ambree. Anne of Denmark. Anne of York (daughter of Edward IV) Cordell Annesley. Joan Apsley. Alice Arden. Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel.
Mercy Short, age 17 and living in Boston. Martha Sprague, age 16 and living in Andover. Timothy Swan, age 29 and living in Andover. He died on February 2, 1693. Mary Thorne, age about 14 and living in Ipswich. Mary Walcott, age 17 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Mary Warren – age about 20 and living in Salem.
c. 1600–1641 Denmark: Burned to death. Elizabeth Clarke: c. 1565–1645 England: The first woman persecuted by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins; hanged. Adrienne d'Heur: 1585–1646 France: Burned to death. Alse Young: c. 1600–1647: Connecticut Colony: The first person recorded to have been executed for witchcraft in the American ...
Agnes Waterhouse. Agnes Waterhouse (c. 1503 – 29 July 1566), also known as Mother Waterhouse, was one of the first women executed for witchcraft in England. [1] In 1566, she was accused of witchcraft along with two other women: Elizabeth Francis and Joan Waterhouse. [2] All three women were from the same village, Hatfield Peverel. [2]
author of at least six plays; [2] daughter of James Boaden. Booth, Ursula Agnes. 1740–1803. actor who wrote at least one farce [1][3] Boothby, Frances. 1669–1670 (fl.) author of the first original play by a woman to be produced in London. Bourchier, Rachel (Countess of Bath; née Fane) 1613–1680.
Arabella Bankes. Dorothy Bankes. Mary, Lady Bankes (née Hawtry; c. 1598 – 11 April 1661) was a Royalist who defended Corfe Castle from a three-year siege during the English Civil War from 1643 to 1645. She was married to Sir John Bankes, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Attorney-General of King Charles I. [1]
This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century.
Anne Greene. Woodcut from A Wonder of Wonders (1651) depicting the hanging of Anne Greene. Anne Greene (c. 1628 – 1659 or c. 1665) was an English domestic servant who was accused of committing infanticide in 1650. She is known for surviving her attempted execution by hanging, being revived by physicians from the University of Oxford.