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List of illustrations | |
Acknowledgements | |
Note on references | |
List of abbreviations | |
Introduction: plots and protagonists | |
Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth century | |
'A squeeze in the neck for bastards': the uncivilised spectacle of child-killing in the 1770s and 1780s | |
1789/1803: Martha Ray, the mob, and Malthus's Mistress of the Feast | |
'Bright and countless everywhere': the New Poor Law and the politics of prolific reproduction in 1839 | |
'A nation of infanticides': child murder and the national forgetting in Adam Bede | |
Wragg's daughters: child murder towards the fin de si+cle | |
English babies and Irish changelings | |
Appendix: on the identity of 'Marcus' | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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