From multiple references. Cover and back book illustration. A work in progress. Would appreciate your comments so for. “Suzanne midwife”, is an historical novel set in the 17th century colony. The baby in a bower of medicinal plants is a common symbolic representation of her occupation as a midwife. The foreboding background of trees signals the troubles she will face hunting for medicinal plants in the forest, exposing her to criticism by her Puritan neighbours as a witch.
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