The operation was performed by Dr Mary Scharlieb
, the first female to graduate from London University with an M. D. Annette R. Federico
claims that MC
deliberately chose a female doctor (though they were...
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Edith Mary Moore
She dedicated this book to her son Edward Lovell Moore
, then on active service. Chapman and Hall
advertised the novel repeatedly in the Times Literary Supplement
(13 January 1916): 17; (3 February 1916): 53; (2 March 1916): 100; (6 April 1916): 163
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1895: Dr Mary Scharlieb advised sexual abstinence...
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1895
Dr Mary Scharlieb
advised sexual abstinence for 3 months after childbirth in her book A Woman's Words to Women on the Care of their Health in England and in India.
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.