What’s Mother to Do?: Infancy during the Regency era
Like so many other facets of society, childrearing also underwent significant changes during the Regency Era.
Continue reading →Like so many other facets of society, childrearing also underwent significant changes during the Regency Era.
Continue reading →Prior to the nineteenth century, children were viewed as fundamentally miniature adults, not much different from their parents.
Continue reading →Unlike women today who often give birth in hospitals or birthing centers, women of Jane Austen’s day almost exclusively gave birth at home. Preparation for confinement fell almost exclusively to the mother.
Continue reading →Family letters and remembrances tell us that Jane Austen played a variety of games with her young nieces an nephews, and was quite good at many of them, including bilboquet.
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