Christlike: Save the Fallen

TitleChristlike: Save the Fallen
Year of Publication1896
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes306 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsDumond, Annie [Hamilton Nelles]
PublisherPrivately published
CitySt. Louis
Keywordsboarding schools; child abuse; foster care; orphans; physicians
Abstract

Follows an oppressed orphan who struggles against her abusive foster parents and to find love.

Notes

The novel is nearly identical—only the title and character names are changed—to Dumond’s Ravenia; or, The Outcast Redeemed (1872).

Author Biography

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.

Time

1850s-60s