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Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women :

by Ziegler, Edith Miriam, Series: Atlantic crossings Physical details: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations. ISBN:9780817387495 (e-book).
Subject(s): Women prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Penal transportation -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century. | Electronic books.
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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