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May 31, 2022 · The Foundling by Ann Leary takes readers to the year 1927 and introduces the extremely naive, Mary Engle. At just 18 years old, she gets a job as a secretary at Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age.
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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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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. Synopsis
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.
May 31, 2022 · From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution—one as an employee; the other, an inmate.
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 · 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.
- Ann Leary
