4. Anna Stanislawska’s Orphan Girl of 1685

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. List of Figures 9
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge 15
6. Section I. Life on the Edge
7. 2. ‘At the mercy of a strange woman’ 29
8. 3. Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac 45
9. 4. Anna Stanislawska’s Orphan Girl of 1685 71
10. Section II. Witchcraft and the Edge
11. 5. Touching on the Margins 93
12. 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? 113
13. Section III. Courtly Women on the Edge
14. 7. Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen 139
15. 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart 159
16. 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent 179
17. 10. ‘Elizabeth the Forgotten’ 203
18. Epilogue. The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century
19. 11. Catalina de Erauso—‘the Lieutenant Nun’—at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 227
20. Index 247