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['* Print\nYear: 1995.\n\n+ENFANT=ILLEGITIME\n\nparent-child interactions and their effects (Meyer Spacks, rev. art. Eleanor Ty, Empowering the Feminine. Toronto, 1998 - in ECF 12 (1999) 111-3)\n\nPregnancy detected: "but when she reflected that she should, in all probability, become a mother before she became a wife, she rolled herself on the floor, in a transport of frantic anguish, and implored heaven in mercy to put an end to her existence".\n\nFear of childbirth: " The time of Agnes\' confinement now drew near-- a time which fills with apprehension even the wife who is soothed and supported by the tender attentions of an anxious husband, and the assiduities of affectionate relations and friends [...] what then must have been the sensations of Agnes at a moment so awful and dangerous as this!" (FMS July2014)\n\nChildbirth described; female attendant: "after enduring her sufferings with a degree of fortitude and calmness that astonished the mistress of the house, whom compassion had induced to attend on her, she gave birth to a lovely boy..." (FMS July2014)\n\nRH-HERA']
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