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• Childbirth -- Folklore -- Cross-cultural studies

• Birth (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)

• Labor Among Primitive Peoples, by George J. Engelmann (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Book for Midwives (revised edition, ca. 2005), by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, and Fiona Thomson (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• Labor Among Primitive Peoples, by George J. Engelmann (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Labor Among Primitive Peoples, by George J. Engelmann (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Emergency Childbirth: A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-Help Training Course, Lesson No. 11 (1970), by United States Office of Civil Defense and United States Public Health Service (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Emergency Childbirth: A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-Help Training Course, Lesson No. 11 (1970), by United States Office of Civil Defense and United States Public Health Service (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2001-) (full serial archives)

• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shaken Creeds: The Virgin Birth Doctrine, by Jocelyn Rhys (HTML at englishatheist.org)
• The Unknown God; and Other Orthodox Essays (Indianapolis: Sentinel Printing Co., 1914), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Dissertations on Subjects Connected with the Incarnation (London: J. Murray, 1895), by Charles Gore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Shelley Mallett (page images at HathiTrust)

• It was my Original Intention, in Discussing the Subject, not to Advert to any Particular Instance of the Caesarian Operation: But, in Consequence of the Intruduction of my Name, and That of Mr. Ogden, into the Account of the Case Lately Published by Mr. Wood in the Fifth Volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, I Feel Myself Called Upon to Say a Few Words in Reply (Manchester, UK: Printed by Sowler and Russell, 1799), by W. Simmons (page images at NIH)

• Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• The Japanese Twins (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by Lucy Fitch Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Japanese Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins (Gutenberg text)

• Twins: Heredity and Environment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Physiology of Twinning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), by Horatio Hackett Newman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Comedie of Errors (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Comedy of Errors (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (New York: Harper and Bros., 1890), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Christopher and Columbus (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Elizabeth Von Arnim, illust. by Arthur Litle
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Heather's Mistress (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• When Ghost Meets Ghost (c1914), by William De Morgan (Gutenberg text)
• Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• The Peter-Pan Twins Are Glad to Help (Racine, WI: Whitman Publ Co., 1928), by Betty Kessler Lyman, illust. by Rhoda Chase and Nina M. Ralston (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Playtime for the Peter-Pan Twins (Racine, WI: Whitman Publ Co., c1928), by Betty Kessler Lyman, illust. by Rhoda Chase and Nina M. Ralston (page images at childrensbooksonlinr.org)
• Back at School With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cave Twins (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Lucy Fitch Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A House Party With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: Hurst and Co., c1921), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed, illust. by A. O. Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In New York With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1924), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed (multiple formats at fadedpage.com)
• The King of Gee-Whiz (based on a dramatic collaboration with L. Frank Baum, uncredited in this edition; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1906), by Emerson Hough, contrib. by Wilbur D. Nesbit and L. Frank Baum, illust. by Oscar Edward Cesare (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Peter-Pan Twins Are Now in School, illust. by Rhoda Chase (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Puritan Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tripping With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Twins in the South (New York and Newark: Barse and Hopkins, c1920), by Dorothy Whitehill, illust. by Thelma Gooch (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Twins in the West (New York: Barse and Hopkins, c1920), by Dorothy Whitehill, illust. by Thelma Gooch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Twins of Emu Plains (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d.), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. Dewar Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dolly and Molly at the Seashore (Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1937), by Elizabeth Gordon, illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Buster Bear's Twins (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1923), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Twin Cousins (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1893), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Vacation With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: Hurst and Co., c1916), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed, illust. by A. O. Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Eskimo Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins (Gutenberg text)
• The Eskimo Twins (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1914), by Lucy Fitch Perkins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Puzzling Pair (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1898), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Eveline Lance
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Queen's Page (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1905), by Cornelia Baker, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• At Boarding School With the Tucker Twins (published as by Nell Speed, who died before the series began; New York: Hurst and Co., c1915), by Emma Speed Sampson, contrib. by Nell Speed, illust. by A. O. Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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