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Jan of the Windmill
Classic fiction
Jan of the Windmill
244 pages · First published 1876
Jan is a foundling raised by Abel, a poor but loving miller who recognizes the boy’s remarkable talent for drawing. Life at the windmill gives Jan affection and security, but his artistic ability eventually carries him into circumstances where questions about education, class, ambition, and his unknown origins become impossible to ignore. Success offers opportunities far beyond his childhood world without erasing the people who first gave him a home. Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Victorian children’s novel combines domestic realism and a foundling story with a thoughtful portrait of artistic vocation and the loyalties that should survive social advancement.
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Death of a child and parental grief; orphaned/abandoned infant; poverty and family hardship; harsh parenting/family conflict; severe storm and rural peril.
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