Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783

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Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women AtlAntic crossings Rafe Blaufarb, Series Editor Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women crime, transportation & the servitude of Female convicts 1718–1783 Edith M. ZiEglEr thE UnivErsity oF AlAbAMA PrEss tuscaloosa copyright © 2014 The University of Alabama Press tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United states of America typeface: garamond Premier Pro cover photograph: A St. Giles’s Beauty; courtesy of the lewis Walpole library cover design: Michele Myatt Quinn ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library Materials, Ansi Z39.48–1984. library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944– harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718–1783 / Edith M. Ziegler. pages cm. — (Atlantic crossings) includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8173-1826-0 (trade cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8173-8749-5 (e book) 1. Women prisoners—great britain—history—18th century. 2. Penal transportation—Maryland—history—18th century. i. title. hv9644.Z54 2014 364.3'74097309033—dc23 2013035417 In memory of my father, Idrisyn F. Jones, whose great interest in America’s history seeded my own. ...