The Devil and the Doctor: an excerpt

The Devil and the Doctor is an excerpt from my experimental novel Willows in the Spring. The novel is a bildungsroman story that explores the relationships women share in the delicate gestational period of adolescence. In kind, it fictionalizes the oppressions and opportunities that emerged as a result of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States. The Great Depression, coupled with the eugenic optimism of the 1930s, created many tensions within the Movement. The novel re- appropriates archival documents as narrative artifacts. 

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