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A new novel about starting Planned Parenthood by Novelist Ames Sheldon

07.12.2022 - By Jubilance for PMSPlay

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Ames Sheldon is an author who just came out with her new novel after working on it for forty years, Lemons in the Garden of Love.  The story is about her great aunt who helped to found the Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts and how she pushed the boundaries in women's rights.  

Sheldon comes from a background of Women's and Gender Studies as the lead author and associate editor of the ground-breaking Women’s History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, which contains descriptions of collections of original primary source materials pertaining to the history of tens of thousands of women and women's organizations from the colonial period through the 1970s. In the process of working on this monumental 1,100-page reference book, Ames discovered her love for women’s history and for using primary sources for research.

If you want to learn more about Ames, check out our website, www.Jubilance.com/blog

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