Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.
By: Ziegler, Edith Miriam [author.].
Material type:
BookSeries: Atlantic crossings: Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817387495 (e-book).Subject(s): Women prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Penal transportation -- Maryland -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.3/74097309033 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E-book
|
IUKL Library | Subscripti | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10845671 | 1 | Available |
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
There are no comments for this item.