A Grand Quarrel: Elizabeth Gaskell, Florence Nightingale and mothers today breastfeeding or weaning

or weaning

students and mothers

midwives and obstetricians

and the consequences this may have for the evolution of Homo sapiens

A Grand Quarrel: Elizabeth Gaskell, Florence Nightingale and mothers today breastfeeding or weaningA Grand Quarrel investigates an extraordinary dispute between two of the most brilliant women of the 19th century: novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale. Gaskell had four daughters and believed mothers had a vital role throughout their childrens lives. Nightingale was an iconoclast who thought all mothers should put their babies into crches and go out to work. Only Gaskell recorded their quarrel. But Naomi Stadlen, an