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
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...
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...

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Texts

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