“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.”Īn industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling “boarding house” provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of women-rich and poor alike. **A Bookshop.Org EDITOR'S PICK (March 2023)** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH (March 2023)**
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