Lilli de Jong
By: Janet Benton
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print peer picks; Thorndike Press large print peer picks
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
ISBN-13: 9781432839819
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Unmarried mothers; Large type books; Quaker women; Mother and child; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.