Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 / edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams.

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

xv, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

'Blooming virgins all beware' : love, courtship, and illegitimacy in eighteenth-century British popular literature / Tanya Evans -- The mortality penalty of illegitimate children : foundlings and poor children in eighteenth-century England / Alysa Levene -- Who were the putative fathers of illegitimate children in London, 1740-1810? / John Black -- The bastardy prone sub-society again : bastards and their fathers and mothers in Lancashire, Wiltshire, and Somerset, 1800-1840 / Steven King -- 'A good character for virtue, sobriety, and honesty' : unmarried mothers' petitions to the London Foundling Hospital and the rhetoric of need in the early nineteenth century / Samantha Williams -- The paradox and problems of illegitimate paternity in old poor law Essex / Thomas Nutt -- Famine, illegitimacy, and the workhouse in western Ireland : Kilrush, County Clare / Liam Kennedy and Paul Gray -- Migration, living strategies and illegitimate childbearing : a comparison of two Scottish settings, 1871-1881 / Andrew Blaikie, Eilidh Garrett, and Ros Davies -- The influences on the health and mortality of illiegitimate children in Derbyshire, 1917-1922 / Alice Reid.

Includes bibliographical references and index.