Abstract
The essay focuses on the Lady Arbella Stuart's intervention into an early seventeenth-century ravishment trial. The surviving records for the trial show Stuart mounting a parallel investigation to the Attorney General's through which she liberated the female defendant in the case from charges of "felonious conspiracy." Stuart's intervention into the trial was not, however, the only instance in which she engaged with legal authority. The essay reads Stuart's actions in the trial in relation to her surviving letters to show how this early modern woman writer actively shaped her literary persona in relation to the law.
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