The unfortunate maid exemplified': Elizabeth canning and representations of infanticide in eighteenth-century England

Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 52-72

  Masciola, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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References (16)

1. Allan Ramsay, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of-(London, Seddon, 1753)
2. Edmund Pearson, 'The first great disappeared in More Studies in Murder (London, Arco, 1953, repr. from New York, 1936), p. 204
3. F.J. Harvey Darton, Alibi Pilgrimage (London, Newnes, 1936)
4. Arthur Machen, The Canning Wonder (London, Chatto and Windus, 1925)
5. Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair (London, Peter Davies, 1948)
6. Moore, Appearance, pp. 225-33.
7. Roy Porter, 'Review of The Canning Enigma', Times Literary Supplement, (22 December 1989), p. 1408
8. John Biffcn, 'Stays of execution', The Sunday Times, (14 January 1990)
9. Arlene Wilner, 'The mythology of history, the truth of fiction: Henry Fielding and the cases of Bosavern Penlez and Elizabeth Canning', Journal of Narrative Technique, 21:2 (spring 1991), 185-201, at 185 and 190.
10. Frances E. Dolan, Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994).
11. Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (London, 1725), pp. 4, 7 and 13.
12. D. Defoe, Augusta Triumphans, (London, Roberts, 1729, 2nd edn), pp. 16-17.
13. William Hunter 'On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children', Medical Observations and Inquiries, 6 (1784), 266-90.
14. J. Hill, The Story of Elizabeth Canning Considered (London, Cooper, 1753), p.
15. James Solas Dodd, A Physical Account of the Case of Elizabeth Canning (London, Bouquet, 1753), p. 7.
16. Daniel Cox, An Appeal to the Public, in Behalf of Elizabeth Canning (London, Meadows, 1753), pp. 19-20.