Observations upon the Proper Nursing of Children, Edinburgh Magazine, June 1761, pp. 304-5. A child, when it comes into the world, is almost a round ball: it is the nurse’s part to assist nature in bringing it to a proper…
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Women’s History Month: Seventeenth-Century Agony Aunts
This question and answer appeared in the Athenian Mercury’s regular advice column, where readers wrote in to the London newspaper for advice. It was published on the 7th February 1693. Quest. 4. A Married Lady meets another Womans Husband, stays…
On Woman
This poem was published in the Ennis Chronicle and Clare Advertiser on the 25th October 1809 and reflects nineteenth century humour. Happy a man may pass his life, If freed from matrimonial chains, If he’s diverted by a wife, He’s…
Women’s History Month: Before there was internet, part 1: viagra
Fed up receiving emails advertising viagra and other sexual remedies? Well, your ancestors may have felt similarly. Nineteenth century newspapers were full of advertisements promising sexual remedies, from treatments for syphilis to cures for impotency. A selection from Irish newspapers…