Sarah Stone

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Standard Name: Stone, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Holmes
Married Name: Sarah Stone
SS , a practising midwife who wrote and published in 1737, late in her career, is also a fine writer of polemic (her preface is a tirade against the theoretically educated young men who were professionally encroaching on the work of midwives) and of case-histories which are dramatic and moving real-life stories.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Residence Jane Sharp
Because no trace has been found of her in London records, and because she uses a distinctively west-country phrase, and the dedicatee of her book may have lived in Shropshire or Gloucester, it has been...
Textual Features Elizabeth Nihell
EN calls the first section of her work Objections and Answers and the second Cases; but she does not (like Sarah Stone in 1737) detail actual case-histories. Several threads of argument run throughout the...

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Texts

Stone, Sarah. A Complete Practice of Midwifery. T. Cooper, 1737.