SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Real Cases: Rape of Sarah Woodcock

»Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (6 February 1731 - 4 September 1771), styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751, was an English nobleman and last in line of the Barons Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Province of Maryland, he never once set foot in the colony, and unlike his father, he took little interest in politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant, often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert, but he left England soon afterwards, and never recovered from the public scandal that surrounded the trial. Dogged by the criticism and poor health, he contracted a fever and died in Naples at the age of 40.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 18^th Century | Geographical Index: European History: English History | Topical Index: Prosecution: Trials: Acquittals; Types: General: Rape; Offenders: Social Status: Nobleman

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. »Justice and the Bashaw of Merryland: Harem Fantasy, Rape Narrative, and the Trial of Lord Baltimore (1768).« Ottoman Empire and European Theatre. Vol. III. Edited by Michael Hüttler et al. Vienna 2015: 167-187.

[Info] Shugg, Wallace. »The baron and the milliner. Lord Baltimore's rape trial as a mirror of class tensions in mid-Georgian London.« Maryland historical magazine 83 (1988): 310-330.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. »Justice and the Bashaw of Merryland: Harem Fantasy, Rape Narrative, and the Trial of Lord Baltimore (1768).« 42^nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver 2011.

[Info] Jockel, Joan. »Rape Politicization and Masculine Conceptions of Class in the Atlantic Press: The Case of Sarah Woodcock v. Lord Baltimore (1768).« Southern Conference on British Studies. Birmingham 2018.