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Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women

Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944-

Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / [electronic resource] : Edith M. Ziegler. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Atlantic crossings . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780817387495 0817387498


Penal transportation--History--Maryland--18th century.
Women prisoners--History--Great Britain--18th century.


Electronic books.

HV9644 / .Z54 2014

364.3/74097309033