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A young woman named Mary Engle accepts a position as a secretary at the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Child Bearing Age. While working there she encounters Lillian Faust, a young woman she recognizes from the orphanage she grew up in. Engle knows from her past history with Faust that she is not feebleminded, and finds that many of the other women at the institution aren't ...
The Foundling is set in the autumn of 1818. [3] Heyer's biographer, Jennifer Kloester, compares the novel with Jane Austen's Emma as having certain themes in common. [2] She also quotes, as a stylistic parallel with Austen, the Duke's observation in the final chapter that Belinda "will always be silly, but [Jasper] appears to have considerable constancy, and we must hope that he will always be ...
“The Foundling” arrives in this century’s '20s, a time not so far removed as we’d like to think from the heyday of eugenics or its antiscientific methods.
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it.
Dive deeper into Eckhart Tolle's transformative book, "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," with our comprehensive reader's guide. Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club ...
Tom Brady welcomed in 2025 surrounded by his children.. On Wednesday, Jan. 1, the NFL icon, 47, shared photos from his New Year's celebrations with his son John "Jack" Edward Thomas, 17, whom he ...
Harriet Abbott Coolidge (née Lincoln; 1849 - May 17/18, 1902) was an American philanthropist, author and reformer. [1] [2] She did much in the way of instructing young mothers in the care and clothing of infants, and furthered the cause to improve the condition of infants in foundling hospitals. [3]