Mother

The work nobody counts, seen clearly for once.

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Mother: A Story, Kathleen Norris’s beloved first novel, a warm celebration of mother-love, in a new Northlume Library edition.

Margaret Paget is one of a large, crowded, hard-pressed family, and she longs to be free of it, for the wider world, fine things, and a life that looks like more. When she leaves home to become secretary to the wealthy Mrs. Carr-Boldt she seems to have won exactly that; but a season among the rich shows her what such a life can cost, and teaches her to see at last the quiet, inexhaustible devotion at the heart of her own home, and the mother who gives it.

First published in 1911, Mother made Kathleen Norris’s name and became one of the best-loved American novels of its day: an unabashed, tender hymn to family, sacrifice, and the ordinary heroism of motherhood.

This Northlume Library edition presents the complete 1911 text, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus, with an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.

Details

• Kathleen Norris (1880–1966)
• Northlume Classic Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 88 pages