The production of a female pen
Anna Larpent's account of the Duchess of Kingston's bigamy trial of 1776
by Anna Margaretta Larpent, Anna Porter, and Matthew J. Kinservik
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"On 15 April 1776 the House of Lords convened as a jury in Westminster Hall to try the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy. The Hall was transformed into a theater-in-the-round for the four thousand spectators, making the five-day trial a notorious event of that London season. The diarist Anna Larpent, then an unmarried girl of eighteen, was among the crowd. She wrote thirty-eight pages recording her informed observations with immediacy and in vibrant detail. Recently rediscovered at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, her manuscript is reproduced here in its entirety. The text is introduced and transcribed by Matthew J. Kinservik and illustrated with works from The Lewis Walpole Library."--BOOK JACKET.
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Trials (Bigamy), Trials, litigation, British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900, English law: criminal law, United States - 18th Century, History, Countess of,, History - U.S., Trials, litigation, etc, History: World, British Isles, History / General, Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh,, General, 1720-1788, England, Trials, great britainPlaces
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"The Production of a Female Pen": Anna Larpent's Account of the Duchess of Kingston's Bigamy Trial of 1776 (Miscellaneous Antiquities)
June 1, 2004, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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The production of a female pen: Anna Larpent's account of the Duchess of Kingston's bigamy trial of 1776
2004, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Distributed by University Press of New England
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Based on a manuscript at the Lewis Walpole Library.
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