Love and toil: motherhood in outcast London, 1870-1918

A NOTE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CURRENCY AND USAGE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLES; INTRODUCTION "The Other History": Motherhood; 1. "Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life": The Poor of London and Their Chroniclers; 2. "There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of": Feeding a Family; 3. "A Gamble You Have to Take": Marriage; 4. "What Is Fated Must Be": Having Babies; 5. "I'll Bring 'Em Up in My Way": Child Rearing; 6. "She Fought for Me like a Tigress": Sickness and Health; 7. "The Value of Babies": Transforming Motherhood, 1900-1918; CONCLUSION: Rediscovering Motherhood; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.