Catharine Sawbridge
married George Macaulay
, a Scottish obstetrician fifteen years her senior, with whom she lived in St James's Place, London.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
George Macaulay
(later CM
's husband) became the first obstetrician to induce labour before the due date, when the woman's pelvis was judged too small to bear a full-term child safely.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
12-13
Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
CM
's husband
died, leaving her a young widow with a small child.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Catharine Macaulay
There is nothing to distinguish this production from others in its genre. CM
notes her husband
's Sweetness of Temper and social Virtue,
qtd. in
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.