Women / Persons ~ P14682
Elizabeth Canning
Alternate Names:
- Elizabeth Treat
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1734 - 1773
Types:
- English
- Prisoner or captive
- Victim of injustice
Note: Canning's disappearance, in which she claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month, is known as one of the most notorious criminal mysteries in 18th-century English law; Henry Fielding involved in the case (on Canning's side)