TY - SER KW - physicians KW - boarding schools KW - orphans KW - foster care KW - child abuse AU - Annie [Hamilton] Nelles AB - Ravenia Martin struggles against her abusive foster parents until being rescued by a Kittanning doctor who sends her to boarding school in Central Pennsylvania. At marrying age, Ravenia is abused further by men and she must move west to escape. C1 - 1850s-60s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Armstrong County; Kittanning; Indiana County; Blairsville C4 - Women’s; Coming-of-Age; Bildungsroman; Christian; Romance CY - Topeka, KS LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Ravenia Martin struggles against her abusive foster parents until being rescued by a Kittanning doctor who sends her to boarding school in Central Pennsylvania. At marrying age, Ravenia is abused further by men and she must move west to escape. PB - Commonwealth Printing Company's Press PP - Topeka, KS PY - 1872 RN - Annie Hamilton Nelles Dumond (1837-1903) is known best for her 1868 autobiography Annie Nelles; or, The Life of a Book Agent, a melodramatic account of her experiences as a book peddler in the Midwest in the 1860s. EP - 251 p. TI - Ravenia; or, The Outcast Redeemed ER -