![]() ![]() ![]() There are several other great characters, but I don't want to ruin anything. ![]() Martha is a God-send to Lizzie, not only as a helper, but as a companion as well. ![]() When the Quincys insist on providing a helper for her, we meet Martha, a young girl from another prominent Boston family, who had recently lost her parents. All alone (initially), she must farm the land, tend the animals, dry medicinal herbs, and deliver babies, amongst a thousand other things, all while enduring cold winters, hot summers, drought and disease. There, she counted among her neighbors John and Abigail Adams, John and Elizabeth Quincy, and Richard and Mary Cranch, all great American patriots.Īfter the young Lizzie loses her husband in a local battle, she does everything she can to ensure her survival, which is not easy during the Revolutionary War. She married into another prominent Boston family and was given farm land and a small house in Braintree as a wedding gift. As war tensions escalated, however, her family was forced to surrender their Brattle Street home in Cambridge. Lizzie was born into a prominent Boston family and descended from English nobility. Her character is fictional, but others such as John and Abigail Adams are, of course, real. Lizzie Boylston, the main character, is a midwife and holistic healer in Braintree, Massachusetts (right outside of Boston) in the 1770s. If you love historical fiction, do yourself a favor and read this book. ![]()
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