A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000

CLARE HANSON is Professor of English at Loughborough University. She has published widely on women’s writing and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and her books include Katherine Mansfield (co-author), Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980, Virginia Woolf and most recently a study of the woman’s novel, Hysterical Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).