The criminality of women in eighteenth-century england

Journal of Social History

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1975, Pages 80-116

  Beattie, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84925900307     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: 15271897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh/8.4.80     Document Type: Article

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