{"product_id":"b0h26f617s","title":"Exeter Girls: Letters from a Feeble-Minded School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hundred years ago Rhode Island could lock a girl in the Ladd School for having a baby without a husband, or because a judge called her feeble-minded, and keep her there, in the superintendent's own words, at least as long as she is capable of bearing children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExeter Girls is the case files of three of those women. Evelyn, sent from Newport as a teenager while her mother wrote letter after letter asking for her back. Cora, a mother of three whose family hired a lawyer and lost anyway. Dorothy, who arrived with one dress and one pair of shoes. Their letters, their families' letters, and Dr. Ladd's replies are printed as they were written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a history written about them. It's the record they left, and the state's answer to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVolume I of two.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54223542059371,"sku":"YSL24363","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/71SaBjyhAyL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792816566","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0h26f617s","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}