Soothe and Scold
Helen McCarthy: Mothers, 12 September 2019
Mother: An Unconventional History
by Sarah Knott.
Viking, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2019,978 0 241 19860 5 Show More
by Sarah Knott.
Viking, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2019,
“... feed, wash, soothe and scold an infant, and something like a history of mothering comes into view. Sarah Knott privileges anecdote in her account of mothering in Britain and North America over the past four centuries, partly because she wants to think about subjectivity and experience, but also because anecdote implies interruption, distraction and ... ”