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A home for friendless women : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION HILL (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]

Physical Description

x, 274 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"Set in the real-life women-run charitable institution in Louisville, Kentucky, which took in pregnant, unmarried women from 1876 to 1919, A HOME FOR FRIENDLESS WOMEN is an evocative and nuanced blend of archival research and fiction that delves into the darker truths of nineteenth century American white feminism through three women's stories"--