Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.
2014
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Uniform Title
Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014.
Description
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
Series
Atlantic crossings.
Formatted Contents Note
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Social change, crime, and the law
Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile
Bound for Maryland
Arrival in the New World
Servants and masters
Escape
Going home and staying on
Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue
Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women
Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations
Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615
Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718
Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776
Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Social change, crime, and the law
Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile
Bound for Maryland
Arrival in the New World
Servants and masters
Escape
Going home and staying on
Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue
Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women
Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations
Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615
Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718
Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776
Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Ziegler, Edith Miriam. Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014] Atlantic crossings
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Language
English
ISBN
9780817387495 e-book
9780817318260 (trade cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780817318260 (trade cloth) (alkaline paper)
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