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Shreve, Anita.

Fortune's rocks : a novel / - 1st ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, 2000. - 453 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0316781010 9780316781015

LCCN: 99042665

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Young women--Sexual behavior--New England--Fiction.
Mills and mill-work--New England--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
New England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PS3569.H7385 / F67 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54