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FRANCUS, MARILYN. "Monstrous Mothers, Monstrous Societies: Infanticide and the Rule of Law in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England," ECLife, 21 (May 1997), 133-156, and WWW.
A 1624 statute meant that just concealing a dead child could be enough to get the mother in court on a charge of infanticide....





