Phil's mother
Eglanton Thorne · 1890
Phil's Mother, an 1890 children's story by Eglanton Thorne, follows Phil, a six-year-old London boy forced by his cruel, drunken mother Moll Dutton to beg in the streets, and traces his path through hardship toward hope, faith, and eventual pardon and peace.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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