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May 31, 2022 · As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women’s suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country. Mary deeply admires how dedicated the doctor is to the poor and vulnerable women under her care.
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- Ann Leary
The Foundling is a 2022 historical fiction novel by Ann Leary. It is about a home for women deemed "unfit to bear children", and is primarily concerned with eugenics in the United States .
May 31, 2022 · Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women’s suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country.
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May 31, 2022 · Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women’s suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country.
- Ann Leary
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May 31, 2022 · Inspired by a true story about the author’s grandmother, The Foundling is compelling, unsettling, and “a stunning reminder that not much time has passed since everyone claimed to know what...
- Ann Leary
- Simon and Schuster, 2022
- 1982120401, 9781982120405
- The Foundling: A Novel
A novel inspired by the author's grandmother, who was an inmate in a controversial institution for mentally disabled women in 1920s America. The story follows two friends, one a secretary and one a former orphan, who reunite and face a dilemma of loyalty and betrayal.
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May 31, 2022 · “The Foundling” is Leary’s first historical novel, and she has all the right instincts, by which I mean she inhabits Mary without modern conceit.