Mary Peters / by Mary Ellen Chase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boat living--Families--Fiction.

Boat living.

Shipping--New England--Fiction.

Shipping.

Merchant mariners--Fiction.

Merchant mariners.

City and town life.

Families.

Maine.

New England.

Coasts--Maine.

Coasts.

City and town life--Maine.

Maine--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Abbott, Harriet (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Potter, Gordon E. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

377 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Co., 1934.

Summary:

The story of the daughter of a Maine sea captain, born on a merchant ship off Singapore and for fifteen years brought up and educated on her father's vessel. Her later life is spent in a little Maine village where her sterling traits come to fine fruition.

Notes:

Illustrated lining-papers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on half-title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: dated 20th-century autograph ("Harriet Abbott K.E.A. 1934") on verso of half-title; dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Given to Gordon E. Potter Oct. 5th. 1944") in blue ink on verso of half-title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

280598