438 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2013 by Scribner.
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An evocative tale based on the life of a controversial Victorian New York City midwife features plucky orphan Axie Muldoon, who recounts her apprenticeship and establishment of a thriving practice that is threatened by a censorious zealot.
Subjects
- Midwives
- Families
- Fiction
Places
- New York (N.Y.)