Rosemary Sullivan
called these love poems, and found them tough-minded, generous, tender.PN Review admired their handling of the binary of violence and tenderness represented by birth. Commentators from the angle of childbirth rather...
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1977: Penelope Leach's Baby and Child, a classic...
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1977
Penelope Leach
's Baby and Child, a classic childcare manual with photographic illustrations by Camilla Jessel
, broke new ground in simple instructional books.