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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
Author
Sarah Knott
Content
viii + 306 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2019
Publisher
New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Description
Focuses on Great Britain and North America from the 17th century to the 20th century.
Main subject
History
ISBN
9780374213589 (cloth); 9781250251299 (pap.); 9780374714055 (ebook)
Citation
Knott, Sarah.
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History.
New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3591.
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09-09-2024
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Reviews
American Historical Review
126.3 (2021): 1240–41
New York Times Book Review,
May 19, 2019, 23
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