Women & history : voices of early modern England

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'To shift for a cloak' : Disorderly women in the Church courts / Sara Heller Mendelson

'She at first denied it' : Infanticide trials at the Old Bailey / Allyson N. May

'I saw, through a large chink in the partition' : What the servants knew / Paula M. Humfrey

'The great danger she had reason to believe she was in' : Wife-beating in the eighteenth century / Margaret R. Hunt

'Hard-pressed to make ends meet' : Women and crime in Augustan London / John Beattie

'Though it be the part of every good wife' : Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Hilda L. Smith

'The pleasing objects of our present researches' : Women in botany / Ann B. Shteir

'The passion for public speaking' : Women's debating societies / Donna T. Andrew

'The vortex of dissipation' : Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Phyllis Deutsch

'I do no injury by not loving' : Katherine Austen, a young widow of London / Barbara J. Todd

'Never was any woman like her' : Mary Frith, commonly called Mal Cutpurse / Valerie Frith