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Unfortunate Objects

Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London

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Palgrave Macmillan

Paru le : 2005-10-11

This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and th...
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This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.

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Auteur
T. Evans
Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Collection
n.c
Parution
2005-10-11
Pages
279 pages
EAN papier
9781403939234

Auteur(s) du livre


Defaut-Illustration T. Evans
TANYA EVANS is a Research Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Australia. Publications include: 'Unfortunate Objects': London's Unmarried Mothers in the Eighteenth Century, Gender and History, 17, 1 (2005), 'Marriage and the Family' in H. Barker and E. Chalus, (eds.), Women's History Britain, 1700-1850 (London, 2005) and 'Blooming Virgins all Beware': Love, Courtship and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century British Popular Literature in A. Levene, T. Nutt, and S. Williams (eds.) Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 (Basingstoke, 2005).

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9780230509856
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94,94 €
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
27
Taille du fichier
1966 Ko
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