Title: The midwife's dilemma
Description: Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Women, Midwives, Mothers and daughters, Love in middle age, Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Pennsylvania, fiction
Places: Pennsylvania
Time periods: 19th century