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“The Foundling ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She’s immediately in awe of her employer—brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women’s suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country. Mary deeply admires how dedicated the doctor is to the poor and vulnerable women under her care. Soon after she’s hired, Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. Mary remembers Lillian as a beautiful free spirit with a sometimes-tempestuous side. Could she be mentally disabled? When Lillian begs Mary to help her escape, alleging the asylum is not what it seems, Mary is faced with a terrible choice. Should she trust her troubled friend with whom she shares a dark childhood secret? Mary’s decision triggers a hair-raising sequence of events with life-altering consequences for all.

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Mary Engle is a young girl who takes a job at the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She was raised in an orphanage and later lived with her aunt who was a prickly sort. She had been taking a stenography course and was given an opportunity to work with Dr. Vogel the superintendent of the village. Mary is in awe of the doctor. She was the only woman in her graduating class at the medical school she attended, and the doctor had been a suffragette and model for women in general.Mary eats in the same cafeteria as the dairy girls who milk and take care of a herd of cows. The village sells the milk to a local dairy. While eating she recognizes one of the girls. She thinks she’s Lillian Faust a “frenemy” from the orphanage. When she gets a chance to talk to Lillian she learns that Lillian was there because while married she had an affair and a child with a black man. Her husband put her in the asylum. Apparently this happened quite a bit.