Midwife Of Normandy

Author : Carole Penfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692790667

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Midwife of Normandy by Carole Penfield Pdf

Clare Dupres, ambitious young Huguenot midwife living in turbulent 17th century France, struggles to save her family and career from the terrors of tyrannical King Louis XIV. On the brink of womanhood, she records in her journal the grand plan for her perfect life--marriage to the man she loves, renovation of mysterious Maison Dupres as her home, and a rewarding profession. The key to her plan lies in "the magic elixir," her ancestors' secret formula for pain-free childbirth, which she offers solely to wealthy aristocratic women. But King Louis' increasing pressure on Huguenots to convert to Catholicism shatters Clare's dreams. Her lover forced to flee France, she is compelled to marry his boring brother. Then she is banned from practicing midwifery. Yearning to continue her profession coupled with fear that her children will be kidnapped by Papists, Clare tries to convince her stubborn husband to move to England, but he is blind to the growing menace. When danger lurks in the form of the King's dreaded Dragonnade soldiers, she must summon all her strength and determination to save her family. Can Clare succeed in getting her family safely out of France before it is too late?

Author : Carole Penfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069211243X

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Lucina's Destiny by Carole Penfield Pdf

Midwife Clare Dupres and her precocious daughter Lucina cause unpopular King James II to lose the English throne in 1688. Clare Dupres bravely faces a new life for herself and her children, after narrowly escaping to England, leaving captured Papa behind in Normandy. Grateful to brother-in-law Pierre for inviting them to share his home, Clare fails to recognize that his attentions towards her exceed the bounds of brotherly affection, ignoring perceptive Lucina's warnings. Pierre's childless wife Celia, jealous of Clare, becomes obsessed with the idea that she would be a better mother to Lucina and Jean-Pierre, and wishes her nemesis would disappear. Barred from practicing midwifery in London, Clare moves with her children to a country village, next door to Pierre and Celia. Before leaving the city, ignoring warnings that the English do not want a Papist heir to their throne, Clare befriends the royal midwife and offers to help King James' barren wife. Lucina proposes a shocking procedure which Clare secretly tests on the queen. This leads to birth of a healthy male heir, causing royal upheaval. Lucina, a gifted youngster who quotes Shakespeare, thrives in the genteel country society and enjoys writing theatricals to entertain her new friends. But caught in the struggle between Aunt Celia's goal to teach her ladylike skills and Clare's insistence she study midwifery, Lucina is conflicted. When she saves her old friend Daphne in Normandy from a disastrous fate by sending mind messages to Chateau Montjardin, Lucina believes she has developed the power to alter the future. As the years pass, a series of disasters force Lucina to come to terms with her own destiny as the plot takes unexpected twists and turns towards a stunning, surprise conclusion.

Author : Nina Rattner Gelbart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924109

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The King's Midwife by Nina Rattner Gelbart Pdf

This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760. Who was the woman, both the private self and the pseudonymous public celebrity? Nina Rattner Gelbart reconstructs Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France. Tracing her subject's footsteps around the country, Gelbart chronicles du Coudray's battles with finance ministers, village matrons, local administrators, and recalcitrant physicians, her rises in power and falls from grace, and her death at the height of the Reign of Terror. At a deeper level, Gelbart recaptures du Coudray's interior journey as well, by questioning and dismantling the neat paper trail that the great midwife so carefully left behind. Delightfully written, this tale of a fascinating life at the end of the French Old Regime sheds new light on the histories of medicine, gender, society, politics, and culture.

Author : Mrs. Jane Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1671
Category : Medicine
ISBN : BL:A0020656960

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The Midwives Book by Mrs. Jane Sharp Pdf

This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.

Author : Sam Thomas
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250010773

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The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas Pdf

In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer. Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha's past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city's most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.

Author : Mrs. Jane Sharp,Elaine Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Midwifery
ISBN : OCLC:714987519

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The Midwives Book, Or, The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered by Mrs. Jane Sharp,Elaine Brennan Pdf

Author : Louise Bourgeois
Publisher : Iter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 086698576X

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Midwife to the Queen of France by Louise Bourgeois Pdf

Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a midwife committed to improving the care of women and newborns, it records the evolution of Bourgeois’s practice and beliefs, comments on changing attitudes related to reproductive health, and critiques the gendered elitism of the early modern medical hierarchy

Author : Lianne McTavish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 0754636194

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Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France by Lianne McTavish Pdf

How could men appear to be trustworthy birth assistants at a time when women were associated with a bodily comprehension of childbirth? To answer this question, Lianne McTavish examines a range of sources, focusing on obstetrical treatises and pamphlets published in early modern France, looking in particular at the visual culture of childbirth.

Author : Joan Wesselmann Reinhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aumale (France)
ISBN : WISC:89010731396

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A French Town Under the Old Regime by Joan Wesselmann Reinhardt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082543129

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A New and General Biographical Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Maternity nursing
ISBN : PSU:000068048013

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Midwives Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Hollway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472858917

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Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway Pdf

A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason and military might. In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom, Battle for the Island Kingdom reveals the life-and-death struggle for power which changed the course of history. The six decades leading up to 1066 were defined by bloody wars and intrigues, in which three peoples vied for supremacy over the island kingdom. In this epic retelling, Don Hollway (The Last Viking) recounts the clashes of Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans, their warlords and their conniving queens. It begins with the Viking Cnut the Great, forging three nations into his North Sea Empire while his Saxon wife Aelfgifu rules in his stead and schemes for England's throne. Her archenemy is Emma of Normandy, widow of Saxon king Aethelred, claiming Cnut's realm in exchange for her hand in marriage. Their sons become rivals, pawns in their mothers' wars until they can secure their own destinies. And always in the shadows is Godwin of Wessex, playing all sides to become the power behind the throne until his son Harold emerges as king of all of England. But Harold's brother Tostig turns traitor, abandons the Anglo-Saxons and joins the army of the last great Viking, Harald Hardrada, where together they meet their fate at the battle of Stamford Bridge. And all this time watching from across the water is William, the Bastard, fighting to secure his own Norman dukedom, but with an eye on the English crown.

Author : Denise R. Larson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780806353678

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Companions of Champlain by Denise R. Larson Pdf

The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.

Author : Ellen Jones
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453289020

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Gilded Cages by Ellen Jones Pdf

A novel of the betrayals and rivalries that set a family of royals against each other in medieval England—and ignited a devastating conflict. Tumultuous. Passionate. Timeless. The marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Plantagenet was like no other, born of power, politics, and an all-consuming, fiery love. Within two years of their wedding, Henry conquered England and together they ruled a vast kingdom. At first they worked to unify and repair their war-torn lands—before being torn apart by intrigue, adultery, and deadly revenge. Henry II dreams of enacting a new judicial system, a common law that would help foster peace. But a devastating betrayal by his closest confidante, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, thrusts Henry into a rivalry that threatens to tear church and state apart. Eleanor, an accomplished ruler in her own right, steps in to help Henry quell the rebellions across their lands. But when she learns of her husband’s secret romance with the fair, young Rosamund de Clifford, it shatters her heart and ignites a bitter vengeance that will engulf their family in treachery and betrayal. As Eleanor takes the side of her sons against their father, these young royals, chafing for power of their own, wreak havoc across the continent, igniting a war whose tragic consequences Eleanor could never have foreseen.

Author : Jacques Vallee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780615187242

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Forbidden Science - Volume One by Jacques Vallee Pdf

Personal diary of a researcher at the frontiers of science.