The case of Mistress Mary Hampson : her story of marital abuse and defiance in seventeenth-century England / Jessica L. Malay.

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

xv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-158).

Introduction : early modern marriage and the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson -- A plain and compendious relation of the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson (London, 1684) -- The Hampson marriage : competing stories -- Afterlife of a marriage : accusations and recriminations -- The widow Hampson and her daughters -- Conclusions -- Appendix : letters from Mary Hampson to William Trumbull (1680-1681).