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- Title
Family Limitation in Pre-Industrial England.
- Authors
Wrigley, E.A.
- Abstract
This article studies the family reconstitution data of the parish of Colyton in east Devon, England. It presents statistics on the mortality, fertility, pre-nuptial pregnancy, bastardy rates and the interval between being widowed and remarrying. The life of men in societies is a subtle and complex thing which can and does influence behavior at marriage and within marriage. The article also compares the family reconstitution in the sixteenth and the late seventeenth centuries in Colyton. Finally, it discusses the circumstances which produce large changes in fertility economic conditions in England.
- Subjects
DEVON (England); ENGLAND; FAMILY reconstitution; FAMILY demography; MORTALITY; FERTILITY; MARRIAGE; ILLEGITIMACY
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1966, Vol 19, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2592794