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Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’ Writer to Adapt Biography of Victorian Abortionist Madame Restell for Just John Films

Just John Films has acquired the rights to adapt Jennifer Wright's biography of Madame Restell, a notorious Victorian abortionist, for the screen. The adaptation will be penned by the writer of Netflix's Persuasion, as confirmed by Variety. The book, a New York Times bestseller titled Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and…