Folly /

Jocelyn, Marthe.

Folly / Marthe Jocelyn. - 1st ed. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2010. - 249 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

14 & up.

9780385738460 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780385907316 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 9780375894510 (eBook : alk. paper) 9780375855436 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Foundling Hospital (London, England)--Fiction.


Foundlings--Fiction.
Household employees--Fiction.


London (England)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.

PZ7.J579 / Fo 2010

813.54