Lilli de Jong [text (large print)] / by Janet Benton.

Title:

ISBN:

9781432839819

Personal Author:

Benton, Janet, 1963-

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Physical Description:

563 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Summary:

A young woman finds the most powerful love of her life when she gives birth at an institution for unwed mothers in 1883 Philadelphia. She is told she must give up her daughter to avoid lifelong poverty and shame. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive.

Geographic Term:

Pennsylvania -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Quaker women -- Fiction.

Unmarried mothers -- Fiction

Mother and child -- Fiction

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction

Genre:

Domestic fiction

Fiction

Psychological fiction

Large print books