Gender in the Workhouse: Bibiliography

Bibliography

Essex Record Office. D/P  94/12/7. List of Poor in the workhouse with their employment, Chelmsford Book of Accounts 1747-1756.

Hitchcock, Tim. “‘Unlawfully begotten on her body’: Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor in St. Luke’s Chelsea.” In Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840, eds. Tim Hitchcock, Peter King, and Pamela Sharpe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Kidd, Alan. State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Meldrum, Tim. “London Domestic Servants from Depositional Evidence, 1660-1750: Servant-Employer Sexuality in the Patriarchal Household.” In Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840, eds. Tim Hitchcock, Peter King, and Pamela Sharpe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Shoemaker, Robert B. Gender in English Society, 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Williams, Samantha. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2011.