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Women - England - Social conditions

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    Medieval lives : birth, marriage, death. 2/3, A good marriage.

    | Date: 2013
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    Medieval lives : birth, marriage, death. 1/3, A good birth.

    | Date: 2013
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    The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered : Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ... / By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years.

    The Midwives Book | Date: 1671
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    Early modern English noblewomen and self-starvation : the skull beneath the skin / Sasha Garwood.

    Garwood, Sasha | Date: 2020
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    Early modern women's writing : domesticity, privacy, and the public sphere in England and the Dutch Republic / Martine van Elk.

    Van Elk, Martine | Date: [2017]

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