Title: Nell's Quilt
First published: 1987
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, Fiction, Children's fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Love, fiction, Women, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 1865-1918
LC classification: PZ7.T276 Ne 1987