Elizabeth Nihell

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Standard Name: Nihell, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth
Married Name: Elizabeth Nihell
Self-constructed Name: Professed Midwife
EN is a mid-eighteenth-century medical writer, a forceful, though a late voice in the feminist struggle to keep childbirth in female hands.
Print of an elderly Elizabeth Nihell, published the year she would have turned one hundred. She wears a cap covering her whole head and a heavy shawl. The inscription below reads "Elizabeth Nihel, Sage Femme", and gives her birth date. "Sage femme" is French for midwife: the image comes from "Biographie des Sages femmes célèbrées", 1833.

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Author summary Jane Sharp
JS , who published in 1671, stands in a line of militant midwife-writers, close to Elizabeth Cellier before her and followed after a longer lapse of time by Elizabeth Nihell . Like theirs, her text is proto-feminist.

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Nihell, Elizabeth. A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. A. Morley, 1760.
Nihell, Elizabeth. An Answer to the Author of the Critical Review for March 1760. A. Morley, 1760.
Nihell, Elizabeth. La Cause de l’humanité. Antoine Boudet, 1771.
Nihell, Elizabeth. Traité des eaux minérales de la ville de Rouen. E. V. Machuel, 1759.