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Unmarried mothers - History

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Works from the collections

5 works

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    Unfortunate objects : lone mothers in eighteenth-century London / Tanya Evans.

    | Tanya Evans | Date: 2005
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    Mother and child : maternity and child welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 / Lindsey Earner-Byrne.

    | Lindsey Earner-Byrne | Date: 2007
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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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    Fallen women, problem girls : unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890-1945 / Regina G. Kunzel.

    | Regina Kunzel | Date: [1993]

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