Marisa-Benoit-To-Pity,-Revile,-or-Ridicule-Popular-Stereotypes-of-Infertility-in-Early-Modern-England-and-Colonial-New-England

Cotton Mather Peter Pelham, Cotton Mather c.. 1700, engraving, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA... The London Jilt 1683 The London Jilt, or the Politick Whore

M A R I S A B E N O I T

I N F E R T I L I T Y I N H I S T O R Y , C U L T U R E A N D

S C I E N C E C O N F E R E N C E ,

U N I V E R S I T Y O F E D I N B U R G H

4 J U L Y 2 0 1 3

To Pity, Revile, or Ridicule? : Popular Stereotypes of Infertility in

Early Modern England and Colonial New

England

Cotton Mather

Peter Pelham, Cotton Mather (c 1700), engraving, American Antiquarian Society,

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

The London Jilt (1683)

The London Jilt, or the Politick Whore (1683), attributed to Alexander Oldys

Printed for Henry Rhodes

Colonial New England

William Wood, New England’s Prospect (London, 1632)

Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan (1637)

Illustration to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Maypole Lovers of Merry

Mount“ (1836)

Thank you

marisa.benoit@chch.ox.ac.uk