Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 / edited by Rebecca Probert.
2014
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Title
Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 / edited by Rebecca Probert.
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call Number
HQ803.5 .C64 2014
ISBN
1137396253 (cloth)
9781137396259 (cloth)
9781137396259 (cloth)
Description
xiii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)882605688
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-250) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
ix
Acknowledgments
x
Notes on the Contributors
xi
Introduction / Rebecca Probert
1
1.
Bridewell, bawdy courts and bastardy in early seventeenth-century London / Martin Ingram
10
2.
Cohabitation in context in early seventeenth-century London / Martin Ingram
33
3.
`All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl': Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century / Joanne Bailey
51
4.
`They lived together as man and wife': Plebeian cohabitation, illegitimacy, and broken relationships in London, 1700--1840 / Samantha Williams
65
5.
Bastardy and divorce trials, 1780--1809 / Julie Shaffer
80
6.
Cohabiting couples in the nineteenth-century coronial records of the Midlands Circuit / Steven King
100
7.
The kindness of strangers revisited: Fostering, adoption and illegitimacy in England, 1860--1930 / Ginger Frost
125
8.
The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s / Rebecca Probert
145
9.
Cohabitation and births outside marriage after 1970: A rapidly evolving phenomenon / John Haskey
158
10.
Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s / Maire Ni Bhrolchain
192
Notes
214
References
236
Index
251