Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 /
Ziegler, Edith Miriam (1944-....)
Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / [Texte imprimé] : Edith M. Ziegler - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014 - 1 vol. (XII-228 p.) : 24 cm - Atlantic crossings . - Atlantic crossings (University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa) .
Bibliogr. p. 207-220
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
978-0-8173-1826-0
Women prisoners / Great Britain / History / 18th century Penal transportation / Maryland / History / 18th century
364.374097309033
Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / [Texte imprimé] : Edith M. Ziegler - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014 - 1 vol. (XII-228 p.) : 24 cm - Atlantic crossings . - Atlantic crossings (University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa) .
Bibliogr. p. 207-220
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
978-0-8173-1826-0
Women prisoners / Great Britain / History / 18th century Penal transportation / Maryland / History / 18th century
364.374097309033