Tilda Jane, an Orphan in Search of a Home

Tilda Jane, an orphan in search of a home, escapes her asylum and embarks on a journey filled with challenges and adventures as she seeks love and companionship, ultimately discovering hope along the way.

By Marshall Saunders · First published 1901 · Genre: Children's Literature, Coming-of-Age, Historical Fiction · 24 chapters

Contents

• A Creamery Shark
• Even Sharks have Tender Hearts
• The Story of her Life
• Unstable as Water
• Another Adventure
• Deaf and Dumb
• Clearing up a Mistake
• A Third Running Away
• Lost in the Woods
• Among Friends
• A Sudden Resolution
• Farewell to the Poachers
• An Attempted Trick
• Home, Sweet Home
• The French Family
• The Tiger in his Lair
• The Tiger Makes a Spring
• In Search of a Perfect Man
• Sweet and Soft Repentance
• Waiting
• The Tiger Becomes a Lamb
• A Troubled Mind
• An Unexpected Appearance
• A Friend in Need

More by Marshall Saunders

• For His Country, and Grandmother and the Crow (1900)
• Rose a Charlitte (1910)
• Daisy (1910)
• Bonnie Prince Fetlar (1903)
• Boy the Wandering Dog (1910)
• Deficient Saints (1899)
• Pussy Black-Face (1898)
• The Story of the Gravelys (1904)
• All works by Marshall Saunders