Abstract
On a large group of 17th-century English tombs the deceased women are represented with swaddled infants. Inscriptions usually indicate that these women died in childbirth. The new concern with the perils of childbirth that these tombs seem to express is paralleled in several contemporary paintings and is echoed in contemporary poetry, prayer books, women's memoirs, and obstetrical treatises. The tombs, paintings, and associated literature are related to the changing structure of the family and particularly to new attitudes towards the woman as wife and mother.
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