Death and a Maiden : : Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt / / William David Myers.
On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her...
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