Abortion in the Age of Concealment
The skillful biographer Marcia Biederman, working in various archives, has assembled a well-wrought narrative, and the result is the creation of a criminal who also became a heroine.

‘The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England’
By Marcia Biederman
Chicago Review Press, 256 pages
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