Survival strategies and stories: Poor widows and widowers in early industrial England

Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 220-239

  Sharpe, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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