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CONFINEMENT: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MATERNAL BODIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

An insightful and personal discussion of Victorian child-bearing and motherhood

Author: Jessica Cox Publisher: The History Press Price: £25 Released: 8 June 2023

"It is hard not to feel empathetic towards the women discussed in Confinement'

In this much-needed and intriguing study of childbirth and motherhood in Victorian Britain, academic Jessica Cox explores themes including fertility, labour, child loss and midwifery through the use of newspapers, coroner's

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