New-born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-century England by Mark Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
New-born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-century England
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Mark Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
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New-born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-century England

Mark Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

206 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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This text concerns women who were accused of murdering their new-born children in the 18th century. It explores why certain women were suspected of murdering their children at birth and how they were subsequently treated by their neighbours, famil...

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