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Dear Readers,

If any of you are interested in looking into wet-nursing past what I talk about on this blog, here are a few sources that you can pick up:

Beeton, Isabella, The Book of Household Management, London: Ward, Lock, Bosden & Co, 1961.

Campbell, Linda, “Wet Nurses in Early Modern England: Some Evidence From the Townshend Archive.” Medical History 33 (1989): 360-370.

Fildes, Valerie. Breasts, Bottles, and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986.

___. “Breast Feeding Practices During Industrialisation 1800-1919.” In Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide: Issues and Perspectives, edited by Frank Falkner, 1-20. Florida: CRC Press, 1991.

___. “The English Wet Nurse and Her Role In Infant Care 1538-1800.” In Medical History 32 (1988): 142-173.

___. Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Inc, 1988.

Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.

Valerie Fildes is a prolific writer on the history of wet-nursing in England. She has written many books and articles, all of which I find very interesting!