Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers
  • Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards"
  • Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa
  • Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy
  • Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison
  • The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina
  • Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma
  • Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.