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Salem Street  Cover Image Book Book

Salem Street

Jacobs, Anna. (Author).

Summary: In a 19th Century English mill town, Annie leaves home, banished by her stepmother, hoping never to return. But a rape leaves her pregnant and she is forced to return. In need of money and security, Annie agrees to marry Charlie Ashworth, an old, slow-witted junk dealer, but a man who can provide her with a home, thus saving her from slave labor in a mill. A reminder of the harsh conditions under which people lived.

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  • ISBN: 9781473616325 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    455 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2015.
Subject: Stepmothers -- Fiction
Rape -- Fiction
Pregnancy -- Fiction
Marriage -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Lancashire (England) -- Fiction
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

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Summary: In a 19th Century English mill town, Annie leaves home, banished by her stepmother, hoping never to return. But a rape leaves her pregnant and she is forced to return. In need of money and security, Annie agrees to marry Charlie Ashworth, an old, slow-witted junk dealer, but a man who can provide her with a home, thus saving her from slave labor in a mill. A reminder of the harsh conditions under which people lived.
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