Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Trotula of Salerno
Standard Name: Trotula of Salerno
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Probably 12th Century: A middle English translation from Latin entitled...
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Probably 12th Century
A middle English translation from Latin entitled The Knowing of Women's Kind in Childing was largely derived from writings by the Italian woman doctor Trotula or Trota.
Barratt, Alexandra, editor. Women’s Writing in Middle English. Longman, 1992.
xii, 27-8, 2
1609: Louise Bourgeois, a French midwife with feminist...
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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.
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Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
