Unfortunate Objects

Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London

Gebonden Engels 2005 9781403939234
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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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ISBN13:9781403939234
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
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1DD West-Europa
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899

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