Infanticide in early modern England: the Court of Great Sessions at Chester, 1650-1800
The murder of new-born children was a phenomenon which attracted considerable comment in early modern England. A year or two before the important 1624 infanticide statute, the clergyman and moralist William Gouge, in his large treatise on family life, described infanticidal mothers as 'lewd and...
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Language: | English |
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2002
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Infanticide
Year: 2002 |
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