Abstract

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 toward childhood discipline 1560-1634 5. Wet nursing and child care in Aldenham, Hertfordhire 1595-1726: some evidence on the circumstances and effects of seventeenth century child rearing practices Fiona Newell 6. Maternal feelings re-assessed: 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 Bibliography Index.

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