Mother
Subtitle: a story
By: by Kathleen Norris
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1912
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Motherhood; Fiction; Mothers; Mothers and daughters; Self-sacrifice; Self-confidence; Sex role
Description: Mother is the fictional tale of a young woman who leaves home and repudiates family life in the hope of finding personal fulfillment through independence and a career. Though she has benefitted greatly from the love of her own mother, she decides that raising children and keeping home is a wasted life in comparison to the opportunities of the business world. But God dramatically changes her heart. She discovers that wealth and position are illusory and that independence can enslave a young woman. She discovers that the greatest woman she has ever known was her mother. Now she longs for home and for motherhood.
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