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Terris, Susan.

Nell's quilt / Susan Terris. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. - 162 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

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United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.--1865-1918

PZ7.T276 / Ne 1987

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