Ann Costello: 2 books

Author’s Note I was always confident that my children would remain reasonably healthy. They would never succumb to any life-threatening illness—after all, I believed, I could never survive anything like that, so therefore it would not happen. For many years, I had worked as an ICU nurse,...

Hiding in plain sight throughout America are historic, highly private women’s self-education groups. These clubs are fascinating survivors from an era following the Civil War when women couldn’t apply to most colleges and were told they shouldn’t leave the home. In their earliest days, the study...