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Cover -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Part I: Mollies, Catamites, Sapphists and Tribades - the Eighteenth Century -- Part II: Changing Attitudes Towards Male Same-sex Relationships Molly Houses -- Part III: Passions Between Women -- Female Husbands, Passing Women and Sapphic Marriages -- The Ladies of Llangollen -- Chapter Two -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Vere Street Scandal -- Anne Lister -- The Increasing Regulation of Society -- Romantic Friendships Between Victorian Women -- Case Study: Three Female Husbands of Manchester -- Men Passing as Women: Fanny and Stella -- The Medicalisation of Same-Sex Desires -- Culture, Art and Politics -- Edward Carpenter and the Campaign for Acceptance and Understanding -- Sapphism and New Women in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Case Study: The Masked Ball of 1880 in Manchester -- The Cleveland Street Scandal -- Oscar Wilde, the Trials and his Legacy -- Plate section -- Chapter Three -- The Twentieth Century to 1957: The End of an Era -- The First World War, 1914-1918 -- The Conservative Backlash to the War -- Popular Culture -- The Beginnings of a Homosexual Social Network -- The Second World War and Beyond -- The 'Witch Hunt' of Homosexual Men -- Afterword -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- A Research Guide to Same Sex Relationships -- Bibliography -- Index.

Adoption is one of the most emotive and complex subjects in social and family history. Gill Rossini's social history of adoption between 1850 and 1961 uncovers the perspectives of all those concerned in adoption: children, birth relatives, adoptive families, and all the agencies and organisations involved.

Rossini charts the transformation of the adoption process from a chaotic informal arrangement to a legal procedure. Set against the backdrop of the moral, cultural, and legal climate of the times, the contemporary voices of those who played a part in an adoption give real insights into thi