Elizabeth Cellier Elizabeth Cellier Elizabeth Cellier (commonly known as Mrs. Cellier and dubbed the "Popish Midwife"), flourished 1668–1688, London, England, was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot" against the future James II but was acquitted. She later became a pamphleteer and made attempts to advance the field of midwifery. Elizabeth Cellier was a noted London midwife, who came into prominence through the pretended "Meal-Tub Plot" of 1680. Nothing seems known of her life until her marriage with Peter Cellier, a Frenchman, and her conversion from Anglicanism.
The Plot Against America for Alternate History, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award., and came in 11th for the 2005 Locus Awards; "The Plot Against America" depicts or mentions several historical figures: In addition, after the 2016 election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, reviewers noted the presence in "The Plot Against America" of a character strongly based on the real Trump. The cousin, Alvin, goes to work for a Jewish real-estate developer whose description closely matches the Trump of 2016–2017 news reports. Roth was interviewed in "The New Yorker" about similarities between his novel and the election of