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Ever since the untimely death of her mom, 14-year-old Joan Skraggs has been frantically unhappy. Beneath the thumb of her cruel daddy and three sullen brothers, Joan lives just like a servant on the farm just beyond Lancaster, forever preparing, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. But she has little liberty and less support from her family on her behalf love of reading and blossoming involvement in education. But when her father tells Joan she can't go to university anymore, it sets off a journey that will see her become first a runaway, then a hired gal on $6 weekly, and finally her individual young woman. Set in America through the optimistic years prior to the First World Warfare, and told through a series of journal entries, The Appointed Young lady is the storyline of a girl searching for real life and real love. It requires in feminism and housework; money, religious beliefs, and social category; books and education, romanticism and realism, first love and erotic yearnings, cats, hats, and bunions. And it's really a comedy.

Category: Jewish