| The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; History; Literature; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Period; David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy. |