Pink Chimneys
Knowles, Ardeana Hamlin,
Pink Chimneys A novel of nineteenth-century Maine / - Center Point large print edition. - 463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Includes discussion questions.
Nineteenth-century Bangor, known as the Queen City, is a city of sharp contrasts--from the elegant mansions of Broadway, built from lumber fortunes and bootlegged alcohol money to the poverty-stricken Joppa neighborhood lined with taverns and frequented by desperate men and "fallen women." To survive, Maude, a headstrong midwife, Fanny, the rags-to-riches housemistress of the infamous Pink Chimneys brothel, and Elizabeth, an orphaned, demure seamstress, must form unlikely alliances and discover the strength to overcome the odds in a culture that tries--and fails--to limit their potential.
1643583980 9781643583983
2019946806
Women--Fiction.
Prostitutes--Fiction.
Maine--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
813.6
Pink Chimneys A novel of nineteenth-century Maine / - Center Point large print edition. - 463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Includes discussion questions.
Nineteenth-century Bangor, known as the Queen City, is a city of sharp contrasts--from the elegant mansions of Broadway, built from lumber fortunes and bootlegged alcohol money to the poverty-stricken Joppa neighborhood lined with taverns and frequented by desperate men and "fallen women." To survive, Maude, a headstrong midwife, Fanny, the rags-to-riches housemistress of the infamous Pink Chimneys brothel, and Elizabeth, an orphaned, demure seamstress, must form unlikely alliances and discover the strength to overcome the odds in a culture that tries--and fails--to limit their potential.
1643583980 9781643583983
2019946806
Women--Fiction.
Prostitutes--Fiction.
Maine--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
813.6