For those of you collecting various references in literature to
breastfeeding, I came across one in the new novel "Cold Mountain" by
Charles Frasier.  It is set in a rural mountain region of the American
Southeast in the time of the American Civil War (early 1860's).  Ada and
her father have just moved there from a more urban life in Charleston:

On page 42:  "All of their Charleston friends had expressed the opinion
that the mountain region was a heathenish part of creation, outlandish in
its many affronts to sensibility...Only men of gentry affected
underdrawers, and women of every station suckled their young, leaving the
civilized trade of wet nurse unknown."

:-)

Susan Horein
Wisconsin, USA
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