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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.
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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.
Title: 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.
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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.
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