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.
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