Unwilling Consent or Ravishment? Sexual Violence in Late Seventeenth-Century London

Authors

• Susan Hernandez, Florida Atlantic Unviersity

College

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Department

History

Keywords

Rape, Ravishment, Sexual violence, Early modern England, Legal history, Criminal justice, Court records, Old Bailey, London, Child sexual abuse, Victim age, Conviction rates, Midwives, Surgeons, pedophile, Social status, Judicial process, Gender history, Seventeenth-century England, Charles II, Restoration England, History of crime, Historical criminology, pedophilia

Document Type

Article

Advisors

Ben Lowe

Recommended Citation

Hernandez, Susan (2026) "Unwilling Consent or Ravishment? Sexual Violence in Late Seventeenth-Century London," Florida Atlantic Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 15, Article 19.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/faurj/vol15/iss1/19