Valerie A. Fildes (Edited by)

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

Valerie A. Fildes (Edited by)

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