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stepdame

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stepdame [ˈstɛpˌdeɪm]
n
an archaic word for stepmother
[from step- + dame (in the archaic sense: mother; see dam2)]
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Hull (Murdering Mothers, 1981), Mark Jackson (Infanticide, 2002), Josephine McDonagh (Child Murder and British Culture, 2003), Susan Staub (Nature's Cruel Stepdames, 2005), and Deborah Symonds (Weep Not for Me, 1977), study patterns of infanticide and its prosecution for the British isles and colonial North America.
Concepts of childhood: what we know and where we might go by King, Margaret L. / Renaissance Quarterly
In Nature's Cruel Stepdames, Susan Staub brings together eleven seventeenth-century pamphlets, published from 1604-92, that exploit the widespread fascination in early modern England with sensational "true" accounts of domestic crimes perpetrated by women.
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