the ecstasy and the agony

pregnancy, childbirth and what historical romance can't quite look at

content warning: discussions of pregnancy, miscarriage, post-partum depression, suicide, and rape in fiction

to be looked at lovingly by Billie Piper, may we all be so lucky. Andrew Scott and Billie Piper in Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

Pregnancy in historical romance novels is generally a positive development that represents the end of the plot. Childb…