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Illegitimate children - History

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    Sex among the rabble : an intimate history of gender & power in the age of revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 / Clare A. Lyons.

    | Lyons, Clare A. | Date: [2006]
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    Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 / edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams.

    | Date: 2005
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    Nefarious crimes, contested justice : illicit sex and infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789 / Joanne M. Ferraro.

    | Joanne Marie Ferraro | Date: 2008
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    In the family way : illegitimacy between the Great War and the swinging sixties / Jane Robinson.

    | Jane Robinson | Date: 2015
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    Baby farming : the care of illegitimate children in England, 1860-1943 / by Ruth Ellen Homrighaus.

    | Homrighaus, Ruth Ellen, 1977- | Date: 2003
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Infanticide - History

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