:<i>The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings, 1500-1640</i>

Delmonico, Elizabeth Otten; Travitsky, Betty S.; Cullen, Patrick

doi:10.2307/2543758

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“…Almanacs and their pocketbook descendants had multiple functions as calendars, literary miscellanies, guides to weather and husbandry, and repositories of advertising media. 35 The earliest almanacs, with their ephemeris, or astrological content, had granted the form a prophetic capacity, forecasting weather, predicting world affairs and political developments, and identifying common seasonal health complaints. They therefore determined the best seasons for key events in husbandry as well as the most beneficial times for dispensing medical treatments.…”

Section: Planning Through Printmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth‐Century Pocketbook

Williams¹

2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Eighteenth‐century medical literature recommended that women record their menstrual cycles to identify dates of conception, measure gestation, and predict delivery. Women's pocketbooks were natural repositories of such pregnancy‐related data. This article charts the history of women's pocketbooks providing printed affordances for menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. Throughout the eighteenth century, women's printed pocketbooks were self‐conscious of, and began to make more obvious, their potential to assist the safe delivery of children. The first mass‐produced tool for predicting childbirth, Anton F.A. Desberger's Schwangerschaftskalender (1827), translated into English as the Marriage Almanack in 1835, presupposed a female readership familiar with women's pocketbooks' self‐conscious capacity to assist family planning.

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Section: Planning Through Printmentioning

confidence: 99%