WEEP NOT FOR ME. Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland

Hardback. An important book in which the author blends social, economic, literary and cultural history into a penetrating and sympathetic portrait of the dangers of love and courtship in the lives of marginal working women engulfed by the flood of historical change. Featuring 18th century Scottish women. Chapter headings include : The Ballad Heroine; Reconstructing Rural Infanticide; Women's Work in the Transformation of the Scottish Economy; Making the Legal Machinery to Prosecute Infanticide, 1662-1719; The Demise of the Act Anent Child Murder; Confessing to Child Murder; The Making of Scots Bourgeoise. + much more. Illus., Appendices, Notes, Bibliographical Essay and Index. 289pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. (dw. not required)