Newes from the Dead
[being A True Story of Anne Green, Hanged for Infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, Restored to the World and Died Again 1665]
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In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.
Alternate Title:
News from the dead
Publisher:
New York : - Roaring Brook Press
Pages:
263
Edition:
1st American ed
ISBN:
1596433558, 9781596433557
Language:
English
Lexile Number:
1180
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260).
Statement of responsibility:
Mary Hooper
Physical description:
263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Add a CommentBeautifully written; the first historical fiction I have ever read. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to others.
pretty boring
This title is eligible for nomination for YRCA 2011.