Download or read book Sweet Cicely Esprios Classics written by Marietta Holley and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marietta Holley (1836-1926) was a popular United States humorist who used satire to comment on U. S. society and politics. She was the youngest of seven children and was an unhealthly child. This caused her to become a private person. At the age of 14 she stopped her formal education to help her family on their farm. After her father died she took care of the farm and her sick mother and sister. When she was 17 she joined the Adams village Baptist Church. There she found her voice. In 1860 she sent her poetry to the Adams Journal. Her successful series of Samantha books revolved around the character of Samantha Allen, a wise small-town woman who went on satirical adventures throughout big-city America, and her foolish husband, Josiah Allen.

Download or read book Sweet Cicely written by Marietta Holley and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Sweet Cicely by Marietta Holley

Download or read book A Princess in Calico Esprios Classics written by Edith Ferguson Black and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "SHE stood at her bedroom window before going downstairs to take up the burden of a new day. She was just seventeen, but they did not keep any account of anniversaries at Hickory Farm. The sun had given her a loving glance as he lifted his bright old face above the horizon, but her father was too busy and careworn to remember, and, since her mother had gone away, there was no one else. She had read of the birthdays of other girls, full of strange, sweet surprises, and tender thoughts-but those were girls with mothers. A smile like a stray beam of sunshine drifted over her troubled young face, at the[8] thought of the second Mrs Harding stopping for one instant in her round of ponderous toil to note the fact that one of her family had reached another milestone in life's journey."

Download or read book Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs Lathrop Esprios Classics written by Anne Warner and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Susan Clegg and Mrs. Lathrop were next-door neighbors and bosom friends. Their personalities were extremely congenial, and the theoretical relation which the younger woman bore to the elder was a further bond between them. Owing to the death of her mother some twenty years before, Susan had fallen into the position of a helpless and timid young girl whose only key to the problems of life in general had been the advice of her older and wiser neighbor. As a matter of fact Mrs. Lathrop was barely twelve years the senior, but she had married and as a consequence felt and was felt to be immeasurably the more ancient of the two."

Download or read book The Primrose Ring Esprios Classics written by Ruth Sawyer and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Sawyer (1880 - 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. Sawyer's first book was an adult novel, The Primrose Ring. It appeared in 1915 and was made into a silent film in 1917, starring Mae Murray and an uncredited Loretta Young in her film debut as a fairy. The next year Sawyer published her first book for children, This Way to Christmas. The story is about a young boy--based on her son, David--whose parents go on a trip and leave him in the care of an Irish couple, Joanna and Barney.

Download or read book Five Little Peppers Abroad Esprios Classics written by Margaret Sidney and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of Harriett Mulford Stone (1844-1924). She was an American author, born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1878, at the age of 34, she began sending short stories to Wide Awake, a children's magazine in Boston. Two of her stories, Polly Pepper's Chicken Pie and Phronsie Pepper's New Shoes, proved to be very popular with readers. The success of Harriett's short stories prompted her to write the nowfamous Five Little Peppers series. This series was first published in 1881, the year that Stone married Daniel Lothrop. Daniel had founded the D. Lothrop Company of Boston, who published Harriett's books under her pseudonym, Margaret Sidney. Harriett eventually wrote over 30 books; in addition to the Five Little Peppers.

Download or read book Clover Esprios Classics written by Susan Coolidge and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Woolsey was born on January 29, 1835, into the wealthy, influential New England Dwight family, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was John Mumford Woolsey (1796-1870) and her mother Jane Andrews, and author and poet Gamel Woolsey was her niece. Her family moved to New Haven Connecticut in 1852. Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861-1865), after which she started to write. She never married, and resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death. She edited The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney (1879) and The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney (1880). She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did (1872).

Download or read book Aurora the Magnificent Esprios Classics written by Gertrude Hall and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Hall (1863-1961) was an American poet, novelist, and translator. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Edna Amile, was a concert and her father, David Culver Hall, was a concert tour conductor. The family lived in London, Florence, and New York. Gertrude Hall married literary critic William Crary Brownell in 1921. Her works include: Verses (1890), Age of Fairygold (1899), April's Sowing: A tale (1900), Aurora the Magnificent (1917), and The Wagnerian Romances (1925).

Download or read book Five Little Peppers Midway Esprios Classics written by Margaret Sidney and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm Esprios Classics written by Mabel C. Hawley and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mabel C. Hawley was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Syndicate was founded by Edward Stratemeyer and is best known for producing the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Rover Boys, and Tom Swift series. The Syndicate produced these and many other series in assembly-line fashion: one person wrote the outline for a story or series of stories, another wrote the story itself, and often still another edited the work. Most Syndicate books were published under pseudonyms. The authors named in this list are those credited as having written the series; in most cases, the names are fictitious.