Elizabeth Cellier

Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the ''Popish midwife'', became the focus of a large number of pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield''s rejoinder, and various anonymous satiric attacks against her. She was tried twice: the first time for the more serious charge of treason, and the second for libel,...