Terrible Virtue Lib/E (Audiobook)

from BrokenTeepee

Margaret Sanger is known as the woman who brought the conversation about birth control out into the open. She was one of 13 living children her mother had in a very unhappy marriage - there were also miscarriages along the way and she saw what the unending pregnancies did to her mother's physical...

from LiteraryFeline

Original review posted on my blog: I participated in a TLC Book Tour and was provided a copy of the book by the publisher for an honest review. Terrible Virture by Ellen Feldman Harper, 2016 Fiction (Historical); 272 pgs Terrible Virtue is coming out at a time when it is needed most. Women's ...

from kaitanya64

Margaret Sanger has influenced the lives of millions of women. Most of us know the name, but possibly little else. Ellen Feldman recreates Sanger's life and times in a fictionalized biography that shows Sanger in a sympathetic light, but introduces voices that offer competing interpretations of S...

from wagner.sarah35

I pretty much knew Margaret Sanger as an early birth control advocate, but this short novel unveiled her fascinating life and mission. Ahead of her time, Margaret was involved in early twentieth-century socialism before taking up her signature issue of birth control. Surprisingly (to me), she als...

from bookchickdi

There has been a recent trend of historical novels featuring women many of us don't know much about. Paula McLain's The Paris Wife about Hadley Hemingway, Ernest's first wife, began the trend a few years ago, and some more recent ones include McLain's Circling the Sun (about aviatrix Beryl Markha...