Women & history: voices of early modern England

I. The female community.- Disorderly women in the church courts - Infanticide trials at the Old Bailey - What the servants knew - Wife-beating in the eighteenth century - Women and crime in Augustan London.

II. The real and the ideal.- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - Women in botany - Women's debating societies - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Katherine Austen, a young widow of London - Mary Frith, commonly called Mal Cutpurse.