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The Back Bench: A Novel

By Margaret Hope Bacon

Paperback: 127 pages
Publisher: Quaker Press of FGC (January 1, 2007)
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Condition: New

Price: $13.00

Synopsis

It’s 1837. Fourteen-year-old Quaker Myra Harlan’s mother has died, forcing her to leave her home and family in the country to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Orthodox-Hicksite split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and – ultimately – herself.