Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920

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