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Tables of Contents for Women & History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
INTRODUCTION
ix
I THE FEMALE COMMUNITY
3
116
1. `To shift for a cloak' Disorderly Women in the Church Courts
3
16
Sara Heller Mendelson
2. `She at first denied it' Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey
19
32
Allyson N. May
3. `I saw, through a large chink in the partition...'what the Servants Knew
51
30
Paula M. Humfrey
4. `The great danger she had reason to believe she was in' Wife-beating in the Eighteenth Century
81
22
Margaret R. Hunt
5. `Hard-pressed to make ends meet' Women and Crime in Augustan London
103
16
John Beattie
II THE REAL AND THE IDEAL
119
140
6. `Though it be the part of every good wife' Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
119
26
Hilda L. Smith
7. `The pleasing objects of our present researches' Women in Botany
145
20
Ann B. Shteir
8. `The passion for public speaking' Women's Debating Societies
165
24
Donna T. Andrew
9. `The vortex of dissipation' Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
189
18
Phyllis Deutsch
10. `I do no injury by not loving' Kathering Austen, a Young Widow of London
207
32
Barbara J. Todd
11. `Never was any woman like her' Mary Frith, Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse
239
20
Valerie Frith
III CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
259
2
III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
261