The Back Bench: A Novel

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.

The ebook version is available in as an epub.

Read an interview with author Margaret Hope Bacon, here.

Also written by Margaret Hope Bacon, Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott.

Author: Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher: QuakerPress of FGC, 2007
ISBN: 9781888305494
Paperback, 127 pages