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Short title	V0011057 A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn
Author	Wellcome Library, London
Headline	V0011057 A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby
Copyright holder	Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Image title	V0011057 A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after the birth. Wood engraving by Orrin Smith, ca. 1840, after Kenny Meadows. In Heads of the people (p. 98), Leigh Hunt interprets Meadows's drawing as showing the monthly nurse settling down in her armchair after the mother and baby have both gone to sleep, taking snuff, a cup of tea, and a glass from a bottle of spirits Plate to: Kenny Meadows, Heads of the people, London: R. Tyas, 1840, facing p. 97 Lettering: The monthly nurse. "From the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to bed, every female in it, from my lady's gentlewoman down to the cinder-wench, becomes an inch taller for it." Tristram Shandy. K.M. 1840 By: Joseph Kenny Meadowsafter: Laurence SternePublished: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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