My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira

My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel



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My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel Robin Oliveira
Language: English
Page: 384
Format: epub
ISBN: 0670021679, 9780670021673
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Amazon.com Review

Ten Books That Helped Me to Write My Name Is Mary Sutter

The following is by no means an exhaustive accounting of the myriad books that helped me to understand not only the Civil War and its effect on its participants, but also the 19th century and its transportation systems, cities, and values. If I were to inventory my bibliography it its entirety, the list would go on for pages and pages. Numerous rare books, diaries, surgeons’ manuals and government documents aided my research, including, for example, Hermann Haupt’s excellent memoirs and the surgery manual mentioned in My Name Is Mary Sutter. To compose this suggested reading list, I sampled my bookshelf. Some of these are reference books, some memoir, some great narratives of history. The books are readily available, with the exception of , which, however, is obtainable either through inter-library loan or in many libraries’ rare books collections. And finally, I would consider myself remiss if I did not include one very special work of fiction that influenced me tremendously as a writer, which I have listed first.

--Robin Oliveira

1) by

2) , all six volumes (Now available as , but I used the original volumes to do my research)

3) by

4) by and Mike Wallace

5) by Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin

6) by Mary Gardner Holland

7) by Margaret Leech

8) by and Barbara Long

9) by

10) by George Worthington Adams

(Photo of Robin Oliveira © Fred Milkie, Jr.)

From Publishers Weekly

The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak, in this rich debut that takes readers from a small upstate New York doctor's office to a Union hospital overflowing with the wounded and dying. Though she's too young for the nursing corps, Mary Sutter goes to Washington, anyway, and, after a chance meeting with a presidential secretary, is led to the Union Hotel Hospital, where she assists chief surgeon William Stipp and becomes so integral to Stipp's work she ignores her mother's pleas to return home to deliver her sister's baby. From a variety of perspectives—Mary, Stipp, their families, and social, political, and military leaders—the novel offers readers a picture of a time of medical hardship, crisis, and opportunity. Oliveira depicts the amputation of a leg, the delivery of a baby, and soldierly life; these are among the fine details that set this novel above the gauzier variety of Civil War fiction. The focus on often horrific medicine and the women who practiced it against all odds makes for compelling reading. (May)
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