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Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It had been a great day for the children at Hope Center the closing day of school, the last of the term, the last of the week. The larger boys and girls had spent the morning decorating the "big" room, which was to be the assembly-room. At the Center they were still quite primitive. There were many old or rather elderly people very much opposed to "putting on airs." Boys and girls went to school together, but they wouldn't have called it co-education....
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ surrender to George Washington reaching the Carrick, Bradin, and Duvernay pioneer families living near Fort Pitt. The protagonist, Daffodil, is the "little girl" of the title, and the plot primarily is used to illustrate the domestic life of early Pittsburghers. It ends with Daffodil’s marriage...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his impressions for after travelers and historians, by transcribing them in his journal. It was not only the romantic side, but the usefulness of the position that appealed to him, commanding the trade from Canada to the Lakes, "and a door by which we can go in and out to trade with all our allies..." [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It is one of the compensations of Providence that after the storm and stress of active life is through, one can go back to the beautiful world of memory and live over the earlier joys with a delight not experienced in youth... [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It was a long journey for a little girl, so long indeed that the old life had almost faded from her mind, and seemed like something done in another existence. When she was younger still she had once surprised her mother by saying, "Mother, where did I live before I came here?"
The pale, care-worn woman had glanced at her in vague surprise and answered rather fretfully, "Why, nowhere, child."
"Oh, but I remember things," said the little girl with...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"I don't see why I Should be called Patty when you've given up Jack and make such a fuss!" interrupted a Slim, unformed girl, who was nearly as tall as the first speaker.
"Well, Miss Patty, I am sixteen and in long gowns; and next winter I expect to go to balls and parties, and be presented at the White House. Oh, I wish it was a court!"
A young fellow, astride the low window seat, laughed with a teasing, bantering sound in his voice, and his deep...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On the Space between the cliffs and the water a few wooden buildings, rough hewn, marked the Site of the lower town. A wall had been erected, finished with a gallery, loopholed for musketry, and within this were the beginnings of a town that was to be famous for heroic deeds, for men of high courage, for quaintness that perpetuates old stories which are perfect romances yet to-day after the lapse of three centuries... [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for the Little Girl and Helen Grant series published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century. [Barnes and Noble]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"How would you like to go to New York to live, little girl?" The little girl looked up into her father's face to see if he was "making fun." He did sometimes. He was beginning to go down the hill of middle life, a rather stout personage with a fair, florid complexion, brown hair, rough and curly, and a border of beard shaved well away from his mouth. Both beard and hair were getting threads of white in them. His jolly blue eyes were mostly in a twinkle,...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for the Little Girl and Helen Grant series published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century. [Barnes and Noble]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It is one of the compensations of Providence that after the storm and stress of active life is through, one can go back to the beautiful world of memory and live over the earlier joys with a delight not experienced in youth... [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his impressions for after travelers and historians, by transcribing them in his journal. It was not only the romantic side, but the usefulness of the position that appealed to him, commanding the trade from Canada to the Lakes, "and a door by which we can go in and out to trade with all our allies..." [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"How would you like to go to New York to live, little girl?" The little girl looked up into her father's face to see if he was "making fun." He did sometimes. He was beginning to go down the hill of middle life, a rather stout personage with a fair, florid complexion, brown hair, rough and curly, and a border of beard shaved well away from his mouth. Both beard and hair were getting threads of white in them. His jolly blue eyes were mostly in a twinkle,...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ surrender to George Washington reaching the Carrick, Bradin, and Duvernay pioneer families living near Fort Pitt. The protagonist, Daffodil, is the "little girl" of the title, and the plot primarily is used to illustrate the domestic life of early Pittsburghers. It ends with Daffodil’s marriage...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On the Space between the cliffs and the water a few wooden buildings, rough hewn, marked the Site of the lower town. A wall had been erected, finished with a gallery, loopholed for musketry, and within this were the beginnings of a town that was to be famous for heroic deeds, for men of high courage, for quaintness that perpetuates old stories which are perfect romances yet to-day after the lapse of three centuries... [Excerpt]
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It was a long journey for a little girl, so long indeed that the old life had almost faded from her mind, and seemed like something done in another existence. When she was younger still she had once surprised her mother by saying, "Mother, where did I live before I came here?"
The pale, care-worn woman had glanced at her in vague surprise and answered rather fretfully, "Why, nowhere, child."
"Oh, but I remember things," said the little girl with...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The bell had clanged and the gates of the stockade were closed. There were some houses on the outside; there was not so much fear of the Indians here, for the French had the art of winning them into friendship. Farms were cultivated, and the rich bottom lands produced fine crops. Small as the town was twenty years before the eighteenth century ended, it was the headquarters of a flourishing trade. The wisdom of Pierre Laclede had laid the foundation...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"I don't see why I Should be called Patty when you've given up Jack and make such a fuss!" interrupted a Slim, unformed girl, who was nearly as tall as the first speaker.
"Well, Miss Patty, I am sixteen and in long gowns; and next winter I expect to go to balls and parties, and be presented at the White House. Oh, I wish it was a court!"
A young fellow, astride the low window seat, laughed with a teasing, bantering sound in his voice, and his deep...
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