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Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis, 1700-1850 - Pregnancy, the Poor Law and Provision (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis, 1700-1850 - Pregnancy, the Poor Law and Provision (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried
parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising
illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores
the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and
conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of
the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although
fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their
illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly
low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost.
Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women
could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally
infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were
interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried
motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.
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