5/10/2023 0 Comments Looking for jane heather marshall![]() ![]() Evelyn always mourned this loss and made unsuccessful efforts to find Jane. Evelyn secreted a note to the adoptive parents and a pair of yellow booties in Jane’s blanket and that was that. No choice there, although in this case, Evelyn desperately wanted to have her brother and his wife adopt her baby. When Evelyn’s daughter was born, she too was whisked off– to be adopted. Agnes’ Home for Unwed Mothers and disowned. ![]() In 1960, when Evelyn’s fiancé died of a heart attack, she was already pregnant with their child. ![]() Angela starts looking for Nancy and eventually as she keeps striking out, she also looks for Nancy’s birth mother, Margaret. She tells Nancy she was adopted and encloses a note from Nancy’s birth mother. Frances had her lawyer send this after her death. ![]() It’s obvious this was misdirected mail meant for the apartment upstairs. As Angela is working in the shop, she opens a drawer and finds a seven year old letter, sent to Nancy Mitchell from her mother Frances. This pregnancy is a little scary because she had a miscarriage with her first positive test. Angela and her wife have been trying for a baby for awhile. Angela was fired when her employer found out she is pregnant. The story opens in 2017, with Angela, who is managing her Aunt Jo’s antiques store. Looking for Jane is a fictional look at the choices women had regarding unwanted pregnancies during the period from 1960 to the time abortion was legalized in Canada. ![]()
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