Name: Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9065-5

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Editors:

A. Levene,
S. Williams,
T. Nutt

A. Levene

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Keywords

Britain
England
experience
Great Britain
history
hospital
Ireland
literature
living
migration
mobility
novel
rhetoric
society
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About this book

This book provides a lively consideration of historical illegitimacy from a variety of methodological approaches and geographical standpoints. It subjects commonly-accepted themes to rigorous investigation, and draws out new conclusions on the mobility, strategies, and experiences of parents of illegitimate children. Paternity is given a novel spotlight, as is the survivorship of illegitimate infants. The authors engage with themes from historical demography, and social, cultural, medical, and gender history, giving the book wide appeal.

Reviews

'...this is a most useful addition to the historiography of illegitimacy, which investigates creatively the prevalence of and responses to illegitimacy in the modern period, subjects some commonly accepted themes to rigorous investigation, and draws out new conclusions on the mobility, strategies, and experiences of parents of illegitimate children.' - Gayle Davis, Medical History

About the authors

JOHN BLACK Research Fellow, University of Newcastle, UK ANDREW BLAIKIE Professor of Historical Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK ROS DAVIES Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, UK TANYA EVANS Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London, UK EILIDH GARRETT Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, UK PAUL GRAY Researcher LIAM KENNEDY Professor of Economic and Social History, Queen's University, Belfast, UK STEVEN KING Professor in Early Modern History, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, UK ALICE REID Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, UK

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920
Editors: A. Levene, S. Williams, T. Nutt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9065-5Published: 10 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 249

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