Nell's quilt
By: Susan Terris.
Edition: Sunburst ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Description: Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.