Suffering from post-partum mental illness
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Mary Morgan: “A Provincial Tragedy” (1805)
Why did George Hardinge condemn a 17-year-old servant to hang?
Elizabeth Canning, Princess Caraboo, Maria Glenn: liars and monsters
There are harsh penalties for females who transgress
Tom Jones, educating the poor, Ehtesham Uddin, a gypsy romance, monsters, Norton Folgate – and free resources
A particularly good week for lovers of lovely Georgian stuff. In the week I blogged on a terrible case of child “dropping” in Bristol, and cited the fictional baby Tom Jones, I saw this wonderful treatment by Posy Simmons on Twitter. Two great stories by William Savage (@penandpension): one about educating the poor of Norfolk and the other on publicly […]
1802: Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett, who dropped a baby on Brandon Hill, Bristol
They may not have intended his death.
Convict love tokens, The Fallen Woman, how to save a drowning man, George III’s maps and beds and bedding
Two stories on love tokens given by convicts before they departed on the transportation ships: Love Tokens: Voices of the Condemned. https://t.co/T3XH1CqtuV pic.twitter.com/tYg1YGyTif — Tracey Hughes (@Traceyhughes200) January 11, 2016 Last words of love. https://t.co/xQADF5fk5f pic.twitter.com/273IWio1Yf — Ann Marie Flanagan (@annmarieeeeflan) January 11, 2016 Lee Jackson shared this gem: men swimming naked in 1825. I think […]