LITTLE BADDOW, ESSEX, 1800'S It is tempting to think of villages as benign places — quiet, intimate, protective. In reality, nineteenth-century villages were among the most powerful social structures a person could inhabit. They governed behaviour, regulated morality, and remembered everything. For women especially, a village did not forget — it accounted . Little Baddow is not simply the setting of Jane Blanks and the Weight of Her Name . It is one of its central forces. A V