TY - BOOK ID - 77899343 TI - The case of Mistress Mary Hampson : her story of marital abuse and defiance in seventeenth-century England AU - Malay, Jessica. AU - Lundquist, Bruce. PY - 2014 SN - 0804790604 9780804790604 9780804786287 0804786283 9780804790550 0804790558 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Abused wives KW - Wife abuse KW - Marriage KW - Battered wives KW - Victims of wife abuse KW - Wife abuse victims KW - Abused women KW - Victims of family violence KW - Wives KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Families KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - Abuse of wives KW - Battering of wives KW - Beating of wives KW - Wife battering KW - Wife beating KW - Spousal abuse KW - Uxoricide KW - History KW - Abuse of KW - Hampson, Mary, KW - Marriage. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899343 AB - The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of ER -