Talk:Maternal mortality in fiction

Why are Benjamin and Ichabod's mothers in this list?
This list is about fiction, so why are Biblical figures listed here? True, there aren't a lot of secondary sources to back up Genesis and 1 Samuel as accurate histories, but that doesn't make them works of fiction (and they certainly don't present themselves as such). I suspect they've been added to this list mainly to wind people up. If not, I suspect you could bring plenty of names over from Wikipedia's List of women who died in childbirth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.152.11 (talk) 12:25, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

This list
This list has been "rescued" from an older wikipedia version from another site that was trimmed, and you may want to look up there its numerous contributors as I am cannot credit for it and am not well-read enough (nor movie- or tv-savy) to compose this myself. I did not think the "move" procedure was appropriate as only a smaller and deleted section of that older site was transferred. In any case, the list, in my opinion, is of interest to any student of maternal mortality as reflected in fiction.Ekem (talk) 01:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

And when is Tina Malhotra Khanna from the Bollywood film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? She dies giving birth to her daughter Anjali... The same with Antonia from MArio Vargas Llosa's novel "The Green House" dies giving birth to her daughter, La Chunga. Also the mother of Jamie Sullivan, the main female protagonist of novel by Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember, died giving birth to her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.23.174.18 (talk) 21:59, 17 June 2020 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.23.174.19 (talk) 00:22, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposal for addition to 19th Cent. literary examples
Should Chateaubriand's novella René (1802) be added to the list of 19th Century examples of maternal mortality in literature? The eponymous protagonist's mother dies giving birth to René. This contributes to René's difficult relationship with his estranged father and intense friendship with his sister, and also begins his 'mal du siècle' melancholy which is considered to have defined the French Romantic literary movement.

Esthergreenwood2 (talk) 11:09, 10 September 2021 (UTC)