TY - JOUR
AU - Devereaux, Simon
AB - Europe: Early Modern and Modern 1351 clientage and patronage that more broadly informed spectable reputation and a regular wage. The degree of seventeenth-century English society. Earlier in the col- violence used to end the lives of some unwanted chil- lection, Tom Lockwood ponders the impact poetic abil- dren is sometimes horrifying, though Kilday empha- ity had on the career of William Lewis, an equally ob- sizes that more subtle means of dispatch must often scure clergyman. have gone entirely undetected. The establishment of This collection includes important statements of po- Foundling Hospitals in the mid-eighteenth century pro- tential new directions in research. While early modern vided one of the first plausible means by which to help English religion is one of the most thoroughly re- preserve the lives of children born out of wedlock. To searched of any historical topic, comparatively little has the young servant, however, living in close quarters and so far been offered on the careers of chaplains, their under the nearly constant scrutiny of others, both giving activities, their networks, and their importance. Each birth and getting an infant out of the house undetected chapter suggests possible pathways for further re- remained formidable challenges. Nor 
TI - Anne-Marie Kilday. A History of Infanticide in Britain, c. 1600 to the Present.
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/119.4.1351
DA - 2014-10-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/anne-marie-kilday-a-history-of-infanticide-in-britain-c-1600-to-the-sVJiMYh9CL
SP - 1351
EP - 1351
VL - 119
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -