The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for...
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Author: Joan Hoff
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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary by Hoff, Joan

The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary

CHF 29.42

The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary

CHF 29.42
Author: Joan Hoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light: for almost a week before her death she had been confined, starved, threatened, physically and verbally abused, exorcised, and finally burned to death by her husband, father, aunt, cousins, and neighbors, who had collectively confused a simple flu with possession by the fairies. In The Cooper's Wife Is Missing, Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates try to make sense of this outlandish, unfathomable, medieval "trial" and murder. Drawing on firsthand accounts, contemporary newspaper reports, police records, trial testimony, and a rich wealth of folklore, they weave a mesmerizing fireside tale of magic, madness, and mystery. This is narrative history at its evocative best.

Author: Joan Hoff
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.07w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780465030880

About the Author
Joan Hoff is Director of the Contemporary History Institute of the University of Ohio, Athens. She is the author of Nixon Reconsidered and Law, Gender, and Injustice.

Marian Yeates has a Ph.D. in American History from Indiana University. She writes from her home in Island Park, Idaho.

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