'To shift for a cloak' : disorderly women in the church courts / Sara Heller Mendelson
'She at first denied it' : infanticide trials at the Old Bailey / Allyson N. May
'I saw, through a large chink in the partition...' : what the servant knew / Paula M. Humfrey
'The great danger she had reason to believe she was in' : wife-beating in the eighteenth century / Margaret R. Hunt
'Hard-pressed to make ends meet' : women and crime in Augustan London / John Beattie
'Though it be the part of every good wife' : Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Hilda L. Smith
'The pleasing objects of our present researches' : women in botany / Ann B. Shteir
'The passion for public speaking' : women's debating societies / Donna T. Andrew
'The vortex of dissipation' : Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Phyllis Deutsch
'I do no injury by not loving' : Katherine Austen, a young widow of London / Barbara J. Todd
'Never was any woman like her' : Mary Frith, commonly called Mal Cutpurse / Valerie Frith.