Rachel Jamison Webster is director of creative writing at Northwestern University and author of two books. She is an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow.
The tale of Grace—an Irish immigrant and servant accused of a heinous crime in 19th-century Canada—is a story of women who endured sexual violence, back-alley abortions, life in a new land, and sometimes lived to tell their story. But sometimes, they lived out someone else's incomplete history.
