Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Louise Bourgeois
-
Standard Name: Bourgeois, Louise,, c. 1563 - 1636
Connections
No connections available.
Timeline
1609: Louise Bourgeois, a French midwife with feminist...
Building item
1609
Louise Bourgeois, a French midwife with feminist views, published her Observations diverses, in which she takes an authoritative tone and seeks to keep the practice of midwifery in female hands.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
under Medical Writing
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.