Never heard of her, but found this and it looked real interesting, and the edition was gorgeous, and I love historical fiction, so...
I am sorry, as much as I love historical fiction, and as much as I LOVED Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of America, I could not get into this book. While I appreciate the amount of research the author did into medical history of this time and treatment of slaves, the gore factor is...