Carmela, who was forced by her husband to place her illegitimate son in a Catholic orphanage, arrives to visit the child.

WSJ: Ghost Stories Sung | Spoleto Festival USA | By Heidi Waleson

Born in 1028, William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy and a young woman called Herleve, the daughter of a Falaise tanner.

BBC: 9 September

Ishmael is, of course, Abraham's illegitimate son, and mother and child were expelled from the family after the birth of Sarah's son, Isaac, so the chronology was backward.

WSJ: A Potent Biblical Bargain, Undermined | Clemency | Boston Lyric Opera | By Heidi Waleson