Category: Read Along

• Instructions for Self-Management During Pregnancy | Sir Richard Croft | Primary Source Read Along

  

  This includes recommendations on everything from sore boobs, sore back, morning sickness, varicose veins, insomnia, constipation, dizziness, fainting, nose bleeds and more. But, as always, these read alongs are for getting folks more involved with primary source material– and emphatically not for medical or dietary advice. Next week I plan to have the next episode […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 16, 2021

  Pregnancy, Read Along, Video

  bloodletting, fetal alcohol syndrome, laudanum, miscarriage, opium, prenatal care, prenatal diet, prenatal exercise

• Death of Mary Wollstonecraft after childbirth, by William Godwin (1798) | Primary Source Read Along

  

  After his new wife’s premature death in 1797 following the birth of her second, and their first child Mary, William Godwin wrote Memoirs of the Author of The Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1798. Read along with me the final chapter in which he documents the ten days following the birth until her […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 2, 2021

  Birth, Read Along, Video

• “An Address to Pregnant Females” 1810 | Read Along

  

  Check out An Address to Pregnant Women at the Wellcome Collection

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 19, 2021

  Pregnancy, Read Along, Video

• “An Essay Upon Nursing” 1748 | Primary Source Read Along

  

  I am still working on part two of the Jane Austen series so I thought this week I would do a read along video for one of the primary sources I used for part one. This is William Cadogan’s letter to the governors of the Foundling Hospital in London, published in 1748. He doesn’t approve […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 12, 2021

  Babies, Read Along, Video