Fortune's rocks : a novel

Shreve, Anita

Fortune's rocks : a novel / Anita Shreve - First edition - 453 pages

In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.

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Young women--Sexual behavior--New England--Fiction


Love stories

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