Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. University of Virginia Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 274. 23 illustrations. $95 (cloth) / $29.50 (paper) / $28.99 (ebook).

Lucy Thompson

doi:10.1353/srm.2025.a981666

Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. University of Virginia Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 274. 23 illustrations. $95 (cloth) / $29.50 (paper) / $28.99 (ebook).

Lucy Thompson

Department of English & Creative Writing

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	441
Number of pages	444
Journal	Studies in Romanticism
Volume	64
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2025.a981666
Publication status	Published - 04 Feb 2026

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Motherhood
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Long Nineteenth Century
Visual culture
Gender studies
Labor
Care
Prostitution
Intersectionality
Feminism

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