Rosalind Phillips-Solomon
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Rosalind Phillips-Solomon
@rphillips-solomon.bsky.social
🪦 medievalist & whale fan 🐋

Thinking about representations of death and grief in monuments and manuscripts - currently focussed on the tomb of the children of Anne de Bretagne 🪽

Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉

Writer @ Facsimile Finder 📜

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Reposted by Rosalind Phillips-Solomon
A monument to a woman: Mary Lewis, midwife, who had brought 716 children into the world. But described as 'meek and faithful, true and just'. Has anyone, ever, met a meek midwife?
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's so incredibly moving in person!
October 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thank you for sharing!

I’ve definitely been persuaded to write something up for a monument of the month post 🥰
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM