Introduction 1. The Construction and Experience of Maternity in Seventeenth-century England Patricia Crawford 2. Embarking on a Rough Passage: the Experience of Pregnancy in Early-modern Society Linda A. Pollock 3. The Ceremony of Childbirth and its Interpretation Adrian Wilson 4. Puritan Attitudes Towards Childhood Discipline, 1560-1634 Robert V. Schnucker 5. Wet Nursing and Child Care in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, 1595-1726 Fiona Newall 6. Maternal Feelings Reassessed: Child Abandonment and Neglect in London and Westminster, 1550-1800 Valerie Fildes 7. Conjugal Love and the Flight from Marriage: Poetry as a Source for the History of Women and the Family Mary Prior
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