Printing, Publishing, and Pocket Book Compiling: Ann Fisher’s Hidden Labour in the Newcastle Book Trade

Williams, Helen

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“…As I have argued elsewhere, the slow elision of the author-editors of the Pleasing Instructor and the Ladies' Own Memorandum-Book was also beginning to be helpful in supporting the educational credentials of Fisher's pocketbook. 48 Nevertheless, the plan of female education continued in further volumes of the pocketbook, with advice on raising children, on keeping them healthy through home and medical remedies, and on their education. Fisher's editorial was a striking intervention in the form of the ladies' diary.…”

Section: Planning Through Printmentioning

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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%