Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920, edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams
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Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920, edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920
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57730759
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edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams
Summary
This book provides a lively consideration of historical illegitimacy from a variety of methodological approaches and geographical standpoints. It subjects commonly-accepted themes to rigorous investigation, and draws out new conclusions on the mobility, strategies, and experiences of parents of illegitimate children. Paternity is given a novel spotlight, as is the survivorship of illegitimate infants. The authors engage with themes from historical demography, and social, cultural, medical, and gender history, giving the book wide appeal.--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Introduction; A.Levene, T.Nutt & S.Williams * 'Blooming Virgins all Beware': Love, Courtship and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century British Popular Literature; T.Evans * The Mortality Penalty of Illegitimate Children: Foundlings and Poor Children in Eighteenth-Century England; A.Levene * Who were the Putative Fathers of Illegitimate Children in London, 1740-1810?; J.Black * The Bastardy Prone Sub-Society Again: Bastards and their Fathers and Mothers in Lancashire, Wiltshire, and Somerset, 1800-1840; S.King * 'A Good Character for Virtue, Sobriety and Honesty': Unmarried Mothers' Petitions to the London Foundling Hospital and the Rhetoric of Need in the Early Nineteenth-Century; S.Williams * The Paradox and Problems of Illegitimate Paternity in Old Poor Law Essex; T.Nutt * Famine, Illegitimacy and the Workhouse in Western Ireland: Kilrush, County Clare; L.Kennedy & P.Gray * Migration, Living Strategies and Illegitimate Childbearing: A Comparison of Two Scottish Settings, 1871-1881; A.Blaikie, E.Garrett & R.Davies * The Influences on the Health and Mortality of Illegitimate Children in Derbyshire, 1917-1922; A.Reid * Index
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