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By Jennifer 20/01/201620/01/2016 Blog posts

Frances’ Frigidity

A guest blog post by Dr Shona McIntosh Frances Howard’s marriage to the Earl of Essex is one of the most famous instances of marital dysfunction in the early modern period. Ballad-makers enthusiastically commented on the ‘strange frigidity’ which was detailed in Frances’s petition for annulment in 1613. The judges

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