Tag: Georgian

• Jane Austen’s Birth | Pt 1

  

  This is the first of a two parter exploring the life and times of Jane Austen with relation to pregnancy birth and mothering. In this series I combine the popular culture, scientific developments and politics, along with the family’s letters and Jane’s novels to gain a better understanding of what life was like for growing […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 28, 2021

  Babies, Birth, Jane Austen Series, Pregnancy, Video

  art history, baby, Birth, breastfeeding, dry nursing, England, foster mother, Georgian, wet nursing

• Updated: Hogarth’s Infant Carriers

  

  Today we’re looking at baby carriers in William Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley from 1750. The March of the Guards to Finchley, depicts a fictional troop of buffoonish British troops in Tottenham Court Road, in London, on their way to fight the Jacobean forces in the uprising of 1745. It’s an example […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2020

  Babies, Video

  18th century, art history, baby, Baby carriers, babywearing, British Army, England, Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, Georgian, Hanoverian, Henry Fielding, Jacobean, London, William Hogarth, Working moms