Accidents of providence

By Stacia M. Brown

Subjects: Unmarried mothers, Levellers, Crime, fiction, Trials (Murder), Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, History

Description: During the mid-seventeenth-century persecution of unwed mothers in the aftermath of Charles I's execution, Rachel Lockyer is arrested and tried for murder when a dead child is found in the woods after her affair with Leveller William Walwyn.