SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article explores The Memoirs of Mrs Anne Bailey, a short memoir published by a lone mother in London in 1771. It addresses questions of methodology, in terms of legal history and textual analysis, to examine how Anne Bailey's Memoirs shed light on the operation of everyday justice in the mid-eighteenth century metropolis, as well as what they reveal about relationships between legal and textual subjectivities during the era. The article argues that drawing on life-writing sources enriches our understanding of the lived experience of lowlevel justice, as well as conceptions of individual personhood in the eighteenth century.
Publication Date
2016-01-01
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
37
Last Page
58
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
April 2017
Embargo Period
2024-10-23
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Ailwood, Sarah
(2016)
"'The True State of My Case: The Memoirs of Mrs Anne Bailey, 1771,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol6/iss1/4
