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Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Giving Birth in Jane Austen’s Day: Confinement, Lying-in, and Churching

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by Maria Grace Unlike women today who often give birth in hospitals or birthing centers, women of the regency era normally gave birth a...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Bantlings, Kinchins and Cossets: Colorful Language Regarding Children.

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Francis Grose, author of  Dictionary of he Vulgar Tongue by Maria Grace One of the things that fascinates me most about slang is its...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Of Midwives and Childbirth

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by Sam Thomas In a post from last month I made the case that – contrary to popular perception and two different groups of historians –...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Childbirth in Early Modern England

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by Sam Thomas When we think about the difference between the past and present, our minds often turn to medicine, and with good reason....
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