Mariroż Gatt : a late nineteenth century renowned Gozitan midwife

Abstract

The Gozitan women at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century led an ordinary life either working in their homes or otherwise serving their community by helping out their husbands in the fields or in the little grocers or shops that spotted the Gozitan town and villages. Midwifery would have been one of the various services offered by a handful of women who would have conceived of their work more as a service rather than a profession. Mariroż Gatt of Victoria would have been no exception.