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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.
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Prior to the nineteenth century, children were viewed as fundamentally miniature adults, not much different from their parents.
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Giving birth: Confinements, Lying-in and Churching
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.
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