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Sunday, March 23, 2014

ANOTHER WOMEN'S HISTORY NUGGET!!

Beaten, Starved and Threatened with a Gun: Harrowing Story of a 17th Century Battered Wife Uncovered in 1684 Pamphlet from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"Mary Hampson's harrowing story appears in a pamphlet published in 1684.  Charts abuse at hands of her husband, including beatings and starvation.  It has been turned into a book called The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson."

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