Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. To Love And Make A Lie: Narratives Of Infanticide
Clerical Anxiety and the Execution Sermon
"One Word": Sexuality and Separation
Competing Communities and the Erasure of Maternity
The Pastoral Encounter: Maternity and Community in the Sermons of John Rogers
The Passion of Esther Rogers: "Freedom of Spirit, and Liberty of Speech"
A Note on the Negro Lad
"To Prevent Lives Being Lost": Community Responsibility and the Bastard Neonaticide Act
Juries of Women
Lessons of Caution for Young Sinners: Silencing a "Child of the Town"
"A Witness against Myself": The Challenge of Reconnection through Maternity
Chapter Two. On Wedlock And The Birth Of Children: The "Pious And Ingenious" Jane
Colman Turell
Piety or Ingenuity?
Piety and Ingenuity: Jane Colman Turell and the Tradition of Women's Religious Poetry
"The Voice Leisurely Ascends": Jane Colman Turell and Psalm Paraphrasing
Come to the Marriage
Benjamin Colman and Marriage: "Union by Vision"
Tho'ts on Matrimony": Jane Turell at Medford
Coming into Communion: Jane Colman Turell and the Travailing Woman
Aftermath
Chapter Three. Flowing And Reflowing: Dialogic Emanations
The Danger of Narrative
The Body Enspirited
Sarah Edwards in Northampton
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index