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Jennifer Wright

Jennifer Wright
Jennifer Wright is the author of several pop history books, including It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History, Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes That Fought Them (winner of Audible’s Best History Book of 2017), and Madame Restelle. She was also a writer on HBO's feminist sci-fi series, The Nevers.


A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

Jennifer Wright on Madame Restell’s Curiously Skilled Abortions
March 1, 2023  By Jennifer Wright
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