Title: The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton
Description: Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
Subjects: Fiction, Women pioneers, Widows, Abolitionists, History, Fiction, historical, Missouri, fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: United States, Missouri
Time periods: 1815-1861