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Article: Women's prayers in childbirth in sixteenth century England.
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- Women and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English
society, the bearing of children was considered a
woman's primary alling and children as her primary
contribution to the family, the church, and the state.
In most instances women did not resist their calling.
If a woman was an Anglican, she agreed, when she
assented to the form for the Solemnization of Mar-