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'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 those of infanticide and courtship. There is no doubt that this book will be invaluable to anyone teaching or researching the family, marriage, childhood, gender, the urban poor or sexuality.' - Reviews in History
'The principal strength of this book is the impressive scope of its research...Evans goes some way to bringing to life the makeshift economy of lone motherhood in the eighteenth-century metropolis. The book is generously peppered with first-hand accounts of poor, lone mothers, illustrating an enormous diversity of experience. These mini-biographies are a pleasure to read...' - Thomas Nutt, Local Population Studies
'Evans's study is admirably balanced, moving confidently between statistical data, popular literature and the voices of the women themselves.' - Women: A Cultural Review
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Book Title: Unfortunate Objects
Book Subtitle: Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London
Authors: Tanya Evans
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509856
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3923-4Published: 11 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51968-2Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50985-6Published: 11 October 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Topics: Gender Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, Clinical Psychology, Modern History