Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.

By: Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Atlantic crossingsPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817387495Subject(s): Women prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Penal transportation -- Maryland -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783.DDC classification: 364.3/74097309033 LOC classification: HV9644 | .Z54 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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