This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
'But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.
The expression hags and witches refers to

• A.old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
• B.the three women who turned into goats
• C.all the women in the play
• D.handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
• E.