Thee, Hannah!

Marguerite de Angeli

About this book

Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • christianity
  • clothing and dress
  • clothing and dress, fiction
  • fiction
  • healing
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile literature
  • philadelphia (pa.), fiction
  • quakers
  • slavery
  • slavery, fiction
  • society of friends
  • society of friends, fiction
  • suffering