By UPDATE! THE BOOK IS NOW PUBLISHED! YAY! Available through all the usual channels. As many regular readers will know along with Ciara Meehan I have been working hard finalising the proofs for an edited collection exploring Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. We are very excited
A Mother’s Milk
Breastfeeding Mothers and Milk in Shakespeare Dr Victoria Sparey Many of Shakespeare’s characters are described in terms that relate to milk and infant feeding. In Titus Andronicus, Lavinia considers whether pleas for mercy will save her from being raped by the Queen’s sons, who ‘even at thy teat…hadst thy tyranny’