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...nurse [Was able to breastfeed the baby], and our child thrived, and was even then a pleasant comfort to us : God wash it from its corruption & sanctify it and make it his owne […] [[p. 65]] [May 5 1649] My deare wife had beene very ill for 3 weekes, now towards night paynes [pains] came fast on her and shee was delivered before nine of the clocke of her 5t [fifth]...

...nurse Dorothy Newhall recorded the thrill of finding ‘an English newspaper’ in her Italian hotel, the first she had seen ‘in a long time’ (UK RED: 30996). Late in 1914, English schoolteacher Kenneth Bickersteth wrote to his family from Australia, noting how ‘eagerly read’ the newspapers were in Melbourne because of the war. He also described the crowds of...

...nursed by a stone-cutter’s daughter, from whom he drank in not only the art of sculpture but also the social coarseness that was thought to contribute to his difficult personality. Such direct contrasts are found everywhere in the biographies of these two colossal personalities, leaving long-lasting models of working practices and creative identities for generations to...

...nurse Eurycleia. As you’ll learn in the activities which follow, she still has a hard time believing that this is really her husband, and that he has finally returned home after such a long time away. Activity 7 Timing: Allow around 30 minutes for this activity Read the extract below (Odyssey 23.88–110), which describes the moment when Penelope first goes to see...