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Old Wives Tales
Author(s): Mary Chamberlain (Author)
- Publisher: The History Press
- Publication Date: 29 Nov. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 075243991X
- ISBN-13: 9780752439914
Book Description
A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times. What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? It answers these questions, and more.
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About the Author
Mary Chamberlain is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of a range of academic, editorial and government advisory boards. She has also held visiting professorships at the University of the West Indies and at New York University. She lives in London.
