The Taken Girl - Large Print Author:Elizabeth Gray Vining A persuasive, brilliant writer, an indefatigable abolitionist, a devout Quaker- John Greenleaf Whittier was all of these. But fifteen-year-old Veer Schuyler, the "taken girl" or servant girl at Mrs. Healy's boarding house, found in him "a pair of luminous and searching dark eyes, deep set in an oval face framed in sideburns an... more »d thick, wavy brown hair, a face unexpectedly young, with an expression so full of humor and interest that it made her feel embarrassed."« less