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Publishers Weekly
Interview by Victoria Sandbrook Flynn
WHYY Radio Times
Interview by Marty Moss-Coane
Finding Beauty Podcast
Interview by Maria Thompson Corley
PhillyVoice
Interview by Elizabeth Licorish
BookPage
Interview by Lauren Bufferd
F(r)iction
Interview by Dani Hedlund
Free Library of Philadelphia, Author Series
Interview by Sam Katz
Isabel Allende | In the Midst of Winter
Interview conducted by Janet Benton for the Free Library of Philadelphia
WOUB, Conversations in Studio B, Ohio University Radio
Interview by historian and wet-nurse expert Jackie Wolf
Rye Free Reading Room
Interview by Chris Shoemaker
CBS Philly
Interview by Peter Solomon
1/2 Dozen for Janet Benton
Interview by Julianna Baggott for Baggott & Asher & Bode
Women's Fiction Writers Blog
by Amy Sue Nathan
Philly Factor LaSalle TV
Interview by Paul Perrello
G'town Radio (The fictional Lilli grew up in Germantown)
Interview by Ed Feldman
Liars Club Oddcast
Interview by Gregory Frost, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk
The Lilli de Jong Quest – The Long Lost Voices of “Fallen Women” – An Interview with Award-Winning Author Janet Benton
By Kim Nagy
In the Know with David Oh
Interview by David Oh
Was motherhood harder in the 1800s than it is now? Maybe not. An interview with ‘Lilli de Jong’ author Janet Benton
By Alaina Johns for fiction need not apply
Unwed mothers, social pressures, the equal terror of telling the truth or keeping a secret. Janet Benton talks about her astonishing new novel Lilli de Jong
Interview by Caroline Leavitt
A Conversation with Janet Benton, author of Lilli de Jong
Interview by Colleen Davis for Cleaver Magazine
Fresh off the Hook: Interview with Janet Benton
Interview by Erin El-Mehairi for Oh, for the Hook of a Book
Reading with Robin: Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton
Interview by Robin Kall
Writing Fun
Interview by Michelle Dunton
Interview with Janet Benton & Lilli de Jong Giveaway
By Amy Bruno for Passages to the Past