Title: Nell's quilt
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 1865-1918