TANYA EVANS is a Research Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Australia. Publications include:
'Unfortunate Objects': London's Unmarried Mothers in the Eighteenth Century, Gender and History, 17, 1 (2005),
'Marriage and the Family' in H. Barker and E. Chalus, (eds.),
Women's History Britain, 1700-1850 (London, 2005) and
'Blooming Virgins all Beware': Love, Courtship and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century British Popular Literature in A. Levene, T. Nutt, and S. Williams (eds.)
Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 (Basingstoke, 2005).