A Daughter Rebels

For Anne Powell in 1807, life in York (now Toronto) is unbearable. Her mother's rules of genteel propriety are intolerable, as is her father's insistence that a daughter's only role in life is to marry. Anne craves an active, useful existence. When a chance comes to assist the local midwife, she discovers her vocation.

Anne is happy when she is able to save a friend from a botched abortion, deliver a servant's baby, and nurse the wounded during the American invasion of York. Her parents hate...