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Book SynopsisIntroduction; 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.Garre
Trade Review'...this is a most useful addition to the historiography of illegitimacy, which investigates creatively the prevalence of and responses to illegitimacy in the modern period, subjects some commonly accepted themes to rigorous investigation, and draws out new conclusions on the mobility, strategies, and experiences of parents of illegitimate children.' - Gayle Davis, Medical History
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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
