The publisher was Simon Miller
. The full title is The Midwives Book. Or the whole Art of Midwifry [sic] discovered. Directing Childbearing Women how to behave themselves In their Conception, Breeding, Bearing, and Nursing...
Friends, Associates
Jane Sharp
Lady Eleanor Talbot
, dedicatee of JS
's text, the unmarried, elderly sister of the late tenth Earl of Shrewsbury, may or may not have been a personal acquaintance.
