Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012

Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600.

Autorentext
Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University, UK Éva Beaujouan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Eleanor Fox, Independent Scholar, UK Ginger Frost, Samford University, US John Haskey, University of Oxford, UK Elizabeth Hurren, University of Leicester, UK Martin Ingram, University of Oxford, UK Steve King, University of Leicester, UK Máire Ní Bhrolcháin, University of Southampton, UK Julie Shaffer, University of Wisconsin, US Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick, UK Samantha Williams, University of Cambridge, UK

Inhalt
Introduction; Rebecca Probert 1. Bridewell, Bawdy Courts and Bastardy in Early Seventeenth-Century London; Eleanor Fox and Martin Ingram 2. Cohabitation in Context in Early Seventeenth-Century London; Martin Ingram 3. 'All He Wanted Was To Kill Her That He Might Marry The Girl': Broken Marriages and Cohabitation in the Long Eighteenth Century; Joanne Bailey 4. 'They Lived Together As Man And Wife': Plebeian Cohabitation, Illegitimacy, and Broken Relationships in London, 1700-1840; Samantha Williams 5. Bastardy and Divorce Trials, 1780-1809; Julie Shaffer 6. Cohabiting Couples in the 19th Century Coronial Records of the Midlands Circuit; Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King 7. The Kindness of Strangers Revisited: Fostering, Adoption and Illegitimacy in England, 1860-1930; Ginger Frost 8. The Context of Illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s; Rebecca Probert 9. Cohabitation and Births Outside Marriage after 1970: A Rapidly Evolving Phenomenon; John Haskey 10. Cohabitation and Marriage in Britain Since the 1970s; Éva Beaujouan And Máire Ní Bhrolcháin