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Massacre of the Innocents: Infanticide in Great Britain 1800-1939 book cover

1st Edition

Massacre of the Innocents Infanticide in Great Britain 1800-1939

By Lionel Rose Copyright 1986
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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Before contraception was generally available, and when abortion was fraught with danger, infanticide was a common solution to the problem of unwanted children. Massacre of the Innocents, first published in 1986, shows the causes and consequences of the high tide of infanticide in Victorian Britain. Lionel Rose describes the ways in which unwanted and ‘surplus’ infants were disposed of, and... Read more

List of Illustrations;  Acknowledgements;  1. Setting the Scene  2. Infant Mortality: ‘The Waste of Infant Life’  3. The Economic and Sexual Vulnerability of Women  4. Bastardy and the Poor Law in Mid-Victorian England  5. Infanticide and the Mid-Victorian Conscience 1830-70 (I)  6. Infanticide and the Mid-Victorian Conscience (II): The Milk of Human Kindness  7. Coroners, Inquests and the Exposure of Infanticide  8. Infanticide and the Law 1803-70  9. Lifting the Lid on Midwives and Baby-Farmers 1869-71  10. ‘Churchyard Luck’: Midwives and Murder  11. The South London Baby-Farmers 1870  12. Infant Life Protection Legislation 1870-90  13. Bastardy, Seduction and Infanticide Law Reform 1870-1900  14. Cradle and Grave: Birth and Death Registration and Infanticide  15. Burial Insurance and Child Murder (I)  16. Burial Insurance and Child Murder (II)  17. Infant Life Protection 1890-1914  18. Bastardy, Eugenics and Affiliation Law Reform to 1939  19. Infant Conservation 1890-1920  20. The Disappearance of Baby-Farming 1920-39;  Conclusion;  Notes and References;  Select Bibliography and Abbreviations;  Index

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