Thank you so much for the recommendations Historiann. Unfortunately, I would really like books written by the mothers themselves in the form of diaries or letters. I have several books of letters/diaries written by female authors, but none of them had children. For example, the Brontes; the closest they came to being mothers was Charlotte's death from extreme morning sickness. I have letters and the diary of Virginia Woolf, who was childless.
There must have been some woman who kept a diary, or liked writing letters, who experienced pregnancy and the constant loss of children to childhood illness.
I can just imagine a woman on the Grand Tour with her husband saying something like "Little George died the other day. We are going to Italy next week and looking forward to it very much."
Were they that casual about the loss of a child because it was so common? This is why I want to read their writings.
Thanks lots.
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