Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn pocket sized, coded diaries, an upper middle class American woman named Mary Poor recorded with small "x's" the occasions of sexual intercourse with her husband Henry over a twenty eight year period. Janet Farrell Brodie introduces this engaging pair early in a book that is certain to be the definitive study of family limitation in nineteenth century America. She makes adroit use of Mary's diaries and letters to lift a curtain on the intimate life