Tag: motherhood

• What Did Jane Austen Think About Motherhood | Pt 2.3

  

  Welcome to the Baby Historian! In part one of this series, I covered the births of Jane Austen and her seven siblings, and the child care strategies of her parents during the 18th century in England. Across the five episodes of the second part, I will show that Jane’s attitudes about marriage were shaped– not […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 29, 2021

  Babies, Jane Austen Series, Video

  19th century, baby, babywearing, breastfeeding, carrying, classic literature, education, history, motherhood, mothering, Regency

• Beatrice Baxter Ruyl

  

  Beatrice Baxter Ruyl was a progressive, well-educated woman who came of age at the turn of the 20th century. She worked as an illustrator and author, focusing on depictions of the Zuni Pueblo, but she is best recognized as the subject of breastfeeding photography by Gertrude Kasebier in the early 1900’s.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 9, 2019

  Babies

  20th century, Abenaki, artifical feeding, Artist, Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, biography, Boston, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, diarrhea, early photography, First Nations, formula, Fred Holland, Gertrude Kasebier, infant mortality, intensive mothering, Käsebier, Maine, motherhood, New England, socialite, United States, Zuni Pueblo