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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Theory, Advocacy, and History 1 part one. Precedent chapter one. Historiographies of Witchcraft for Feminist Advocacy: Historical Justice in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch 25 chapter two. Witchcraft Precedents as Literary History: From The Discoverie of Witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale 53 chapter three. The Historical Turn in Witchcraft Literature: From Enlightenment Historiography to Historical Realism 76 part two. Agency chapter four. Theories and Histories of Agency: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Narrative of the Reasonable Woman 101 chapter five. Agency, Equity, Publicity: Compos Mentis in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Lunacy Commission Reports 126 part three. Testimony chapter six. Gendered Credibility: Testimony in Fiction and Indecent Assault 157 chapter seven. Women’s Legal Literacy and Pro Se Representation: From Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon 186 part four. The Motives of Advocacy chapter eight. Concealing Women’s Mens Rea: Advocacy for Female Prisoners and Infanticidal Mothers 203 chapter nine. The Secret Agency of Juries: Forging Resistance against Sodomy Prosecution 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 291 viii Contents ...