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For those who thought that Gone with the Wind epitomized a fictional authoritative chronicle before and during the Civil War, in this tumultuous period of our own current history, it is clear that My Name is Mary Sutter, has commendably garnered a pinnacle in what this voracious generation desires to know.
In a magnificent debut novel, Robin Oliveria offers an unsurpassed entre into one woman’s unrelenting quest to ascend from mere acceptable midwifery to a 19th century avant-garde physician and ...more
In a magnificent debut novel, Robin Oliveria offers an unsurpassed entre into one woman’s unrelenting quest to ascend from mere acceptable midwifery to a 19th century avant-garde physician and ...more
Ah, I love a bit of historical fiction, but I honestly cannot remember having read a book set during the American Civil War. Coupled with the fact that Mary wanted to buck the trend and become a doctor, I was so intrigued about this book.
Right from the first chapter, I had to admire Mary. Wanting to apprentice to a local surgeon, she finds herself instead delivering a baby and suitably impressing the surgeon with her skills and knowledge. Despite Mary's disappointment when he turns down her requ ...more
Right from the first chapter, I had to admire Mary. Wanting to apprentice to a local surgeon, she finds herself instead delivering a baby and suitably impressing the surgeon with her skills and knowledge. Despite Mary's disappointment when he turns down her requ ...more
This was a good read, but the story was interrupted by seemingly unrelated bits about President Abraham Lincoln and his men. I found that a little off-putting. The story itself, about Mary Sutter, a midwife who aspires to be a doctor in a day and age when such a thing was both shocking and largely unattainable, is a wonderful portrayal of the horrors of the Civil war from the perspective of the nurses and doctors. Swimming in bodies of the injured and dying, battling septic challenges that would
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