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A courtroom hearing a paternity suite: a lawyer pleads for his client before the bench. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1752/1761, after C. Troost.
Cornelis TroostDate: 1752-1761Reference: 31648i
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Unfortunate objects : lone mothers in eighteenth-century London / Tanya Evans.
Tanya EvansDate: 2005
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Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Augustus Charles PuginDate: 1 March 1808Reference: 21557i
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A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
T., I., active 1826.Date: 1826Reference: 21828i
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A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
Date: 12th May 1794Reference: 27640i
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Mother and child : maternity and child welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 / Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
Lindsey Earner-ByrneDate: 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 FerraroDate: 2008
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Fallen women, problem girls : unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890-1945 / Regina G. Kunzel.
Regina KunzelDate: [1993], ©1993
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Studies in the social services / by Sheila Ferguson and Hilde Fitzgerald.
Ferguson, SheilaDate: 1954
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Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
Reference: 16860i
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The single woman's guide to pregnancy and parenthood / Patricia Ashdown-Sharp ; drawings by Margaret Belsky.
Ashdown-Sharp, Patricia, 1941-Date: 1975
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Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.
Date: 1 January 1797Reference: 18614i
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Single and pregnant / Sally Macintyre.
Sally MacintyreDate: [1977], ©1977
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Is this pregnancy? : what to do next, 3 stages of pregnancy, what to eat, what to wear, how a baby is born / [by Jennifer Gibb] ; [drawings by Judith Coney].
Gibb, JenniferDate: [1977]
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Single mothers - the first year : a Scottish study of mothers bringing up their children on their own / by Angela Hopkinson ; with a foreword by John C. Spencer.
Hopkinson, AngelaDate: 1976
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The home that Jill built : a follow-up study of single mothers who set out to bring up their chilren on their own / Judith Lamotte in collaboration with Julie-Ann Macqueen.
Lamotte, Judith R.Date: [1981], ©1981
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Social insecurity : single mothers on benefit / Jane Streather and Stuart Weir.
Streather, JaneDate: 1974

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A courtroom hearing a paternity suite: a lawyer pleads for his client before the bench. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1752/1761, after C. Troost.

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

Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.

Mother and child : maternity and child welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 / Lindsey Earner-Byrne.

Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 / edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams.

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

Fallen women, problem girls : unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890-1945 / Regina G. Kunzel.

Studies in the social services / by Sheila Ferguson and Hilde Fitzgerald.

Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.

The single woman's guide to pregnancy and parenthood / Patricia Ashdown-Sharp ; drawings by Margaret Belsky.

Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.

Single and pregnant / Sally Macintyre.

Is this pregnancy? : what to do next, 3 stages of pregnancy, what to eat, what to wear, how a baby is born / [by Jennifer Gibb] ; [drawings by Judith Coney].

Single mothers - the first year : a Scottish study of mothers bringing up their children on their own / by Angela Hopkinson ; with a foreword by John C. Spencer.

The home that Jill built : a follow-up study of single mothers who set out to bring up their chilren on their own / Judith Lamotte in collaboration with Julie-Ann Macqueen.

Social insecurity : single mothers on benefit / Jane Streather and Stuart Weir.