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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Main Author: Dickinson, Roger (Author)
Contributors: Sharpe, J. A.
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2002
In: Infanticide
Year: 2002
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