These articles have been peer-reviewed under the direction of Professors Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge (University of Victoria). They form part of the Great Expectations Pregnancy Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Project overview
- "Abortion," by Lesley Hall
- "'Advice to a Young Wife': Medical Advice Manuals in the Nineteenth Century," by Anna Niiranen
- "Anatomical Models of Pregnancy," by Corinna Wagner
- "Birth Control," by Lesley Hall
- "Breastfeeding, Wet Nursing, and Feeding 'by Hand,'" by Jessica Cox
- "Embryology from Aristotle to Darwin," by Diana Edelman
- "Infanticide," by Kristin Kalsem
- "Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America," by Shannon Withycombe
- "Pregnancy and Venereal Disease," by Anne Hanley
- "Pregnancy Testing," by Isabel Davis
- Puerperal Insanity," by Hilary Marland
- "Sexual Knowledge in Print Culture," by Sarah Bull
- "Victorian Childbirth," by Hilary Marland
- "Victorian Maternity Dress," by Alanna McKnight
- "The Vocabulary of Pregnancy," by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
Links to related material outside this project
- Pregnancy and Childbirth, by Helena Wojtczak
- Difficulties in Childbirth, by Anthony S. Wohl
- Victorian Infant Mortality: A Bibliography (compiled by Lesley Hall)
- Puerperal (Childbed) Fever
Created 15 July 2022
Last modified 3 February 2024