Author: Ellie Hibbert

Jessica Cox, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cheltenham: The History Press, 2023) 320 pp. £25.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780750998574 The nineteenth century witnessed a population boom that has long been the subject of historical attention, particularly within in the context of industrialisation and expansion. However, Jessica Cox, a reader in English…