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Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)
Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is more complex. The Bailiff’s Wife (Cuidono Press, 2025) builds on a historical event recorded in a seventeenth-century English broadsheet to create a picture of a society in flux, the result of far-reaching political and religious changes that found expression in the English Civil War and its aftermath, the Restoration of King Charles II. Sarah Kidd, a woman whose husband has gone missing, along with the small fortune with which he intended to…
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