'Unfortunate Objects'

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘The Insecurities of Life and Trade’: Work, Community and Personal Life in Eighteenth-Century London

Chapter 3 Courtship, Sex and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Popular Literature

Chapter 4 ‘Craving Charity’: Poor Mothers and the Public Philanthropic Imagination

Chapter 5 ‘Unfortunate Objects’: Petitioners to the Foundling Hospital

Chapter 6 The Duty of Poor Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London

Chapter 8 ‘Be so Good as to Remember Where This Child Goes to’: Poor but not Hopeless

Chapter 9 Conclusion