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 / Edith M. Ziegler. - 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations. - Atlantic crossings . - Atlantic crossings. .
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
Women prisoners--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Penal transportation--History--Maryland--18th century.
Electronic books.
HV9644 / .Z54 2014
364.3/74097309033
Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler. - 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations. - Atlantic crossings . - Atlantic crossings. .
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
Women prisoners--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Penal transportation--History--Maryland--18th century.
Electronic books.
HV9644 / .Z54 2014
364.3/74097309033