The Resource Lilli de Jong : a novel, Janet Benton
Lilli de Jong : a novel, Janet Benton
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The item Lilli de Jong : a novel, Janet Benton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- 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, but she chooses to keep her. Pregnant, left behind by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a home for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overtakes her heart. Mothers in her position face disabling prejudice, which is why most give up their newborns. But Lilli can't accept such an outcome. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive. Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes readers from an impoverished charity, to a wealthy family's home, to the streets of a burgeoning American city. Drawing on rich history, Lilli de Jong is both an intimate portrait of loves lost and found and a testament to the work of mothers
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385541459
- Label
- Lilli de Jong : a novel
- Title
- Lilli de Jong
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Janet Benton
- Subject
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- Historical fiction
- Mother and child -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Quaker women -- Fiction
- Diary fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, but she chooses to keep her. Pregnant, left behind by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a home for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overtakes her heart. Mothers in her position face disabling prejudice, which is why most give up their newborns. But Lilli can't accept such an outcome. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive. Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes readers from an impoverished charity, to a wealthy family's home, to the streets of a burgeoning American city. Drawing on rich history, Lilli de Jong is both an intimate portrait of loves lost and found and a testament to the work of mothers
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benton, Janet
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Quaker women
- Unmarried mothers
- Mother and child
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Lilli de Jong : a novel, Janet Benton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225899315
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780385541459
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Lilli de Jong : a novel, Janet Benton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225899315
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780385541459
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Historical fiction
- Mother and child -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Quaker women -- Fiction
- Diary fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
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