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Margaret Stephen was a British midwife, midwifery teacher and author, active in London in the late 18th century, who published Domestic Midwife (1795), one of a handful of textbooks on midwifery from that era that is by a woman. She was trained by a male student of the famous male midwife, William Smellie, and
Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
Allen Allensworth (1842–1914) famous African-American American Civil War soldier who started as a nurse; Annie Altschul (1919-2001) Britain's first mental health nurse pioneer; Sir Jonathan Asbridge, first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council; Charles Atangana (1880–1943), paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon
Mary Ann Eaves (c. 1805/6 – 1875) was an English midwife. She is known for the register she kept of the 5029 births she attended throughout her 28-year career, which constitutes a primary source for the study of nineteenth-century midwifery. Early life Mary was born Mary Willis in Coventry. On 16 July 1825, she married a silk weaver, Charles Eaves. Silk weaving was a common cottage industry ...
Margaret Charles Smith was Born in Eutaw, Alabama on September 12, 1906. About 3 weeks after Smith's birth however, her mother Beulah Sanders, passed away. After the death of her mother, Smith was raised by her grandparents on their farm in Eutaw, Alabama. [2]
She was intending to become a nun until meeting a nurse from the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris who inspired her to take up midwifery. She attended classes at the Hôtel-Dieu, studying midwifery, anatomy and medicine. She married Jean Didiot, sieur de Lamarche when she was aged 23, and a year later became the head midwife of the Hôtel-Dieu, teaching students.
The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was common hospital around this time, which taught midwifery especially by one famous midwife, Madame du Coudray, who was supported by King Louis XV. [5] In 1754, Nihell and her husband moved to Britain and settled in Haymarket. After settling in, Nihell started to advertise herself as a midwife in the London Evening ...