It's a bold task to take on writing a 400-page plus book based on the life of an obscure English midwife who lived in the 1600s. But that is the challenge Annelisa Christensen gave herself with The Popish Midwife, after studying court transcripts about the...

The Midnight Midwife is the third book in the Seventeenth Century Midwives series by Annelisa Christensen. It is set in the 17th-century busy market town of St. Albans, where Abigale Harris works as a midwife, trying to make a living for her three adopted daughters...