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Unfortunate Objects: Lone Mothers in the Eighteenth Century
Tanya Evans
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Description for Unfortunate Objects: Lone Mothers in the Eighteenth Century
Hardcover. Num Pages: 286 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403939234
SKU
V9781403939234
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99-15
About Tanya 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Unfortunate Objects: Lone Mothers in the Eighteenth Century
'In providing insights into the love, duty and obligation felt by poor plebeian mothers towards their children, and in exposing the complexities behind the abandonment of babies by showing that it cannot simply be equated with illegitimacy or indifference, Evans makes significant contributions to the historiographies of eighteenth-century maternity, illegitimacy, the plebeian experience, and poverty, as well as touching on ... Read more