Jane Sharp

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Standard Name: Sharp, Jane
Birth Name: Jane
Married Name: Jane Sharp
JS , who published in 1671, stands in a line of militant midwife-writers, close to Elizabeth Cellier before her and followed after a longer lapse of time by Elizabeth Nihell . Like theirs, her text is proto-feminist.
Photograph of the title-page of "The Midwives Book, or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered", 1671, by Jane Sharp (in its slightly differently titled third edition, 1674).

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1540: Robert Jonas translated and published The...

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1540

Robert Jonas translated and published The Birth of Mankind, the earliest in a long line of popular books in English about human reproduction.
Hobby, Elaine. “’Some Things more Material to be Known’: Reading Some Books for the Recovery Project”. Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Salzman, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 12-32.
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1724: John Maubray published The Female Physician,...

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1724

John Maubray published The Female Physician, Containing all the Diseases incident to that Sex, in Virgins, Wives, and Widows . . . to which is added, The Whole Art of New improv'd Midwifery
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
67, 29-30

Texts

Sharp, Jane. “Introduction”. The Midwives Book, edited by Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xi - xxxi.
Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book. Simon Miller, 1671.
Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book. Editor Hobby, Elaine, Oxford University Press, 1999.