Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900 / Josephine McDonagh.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-272) and index.

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' 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-Siècle -- English babies and Irish changelings.