“[Brilliant] … Reeder’s winsomely written narrative touches on issues strikingly similar to ones widely discussed today, including women’s ongoing frustration with the lack of robust medical study of the female body and the troubling reemergence of reactionary assertions that women are by design not fit for work. It’s an urgent and revealing slice of history.”
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"A lively, engaging portrait of one of the most influential women in Victorian medicine."
— Olivia Campbell, author of the Women in White Coats
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi
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“Powerful, suspenseful, cinematic.
Lydia Reeder has a talent for uncovering little-known heroes from the past and making their stories compulsively readable.”
— Lindsey Fitzharris, New York Times
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