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Ma Jeeter's girls / Dorothy Thomas ; illustrated by the author.
LIBRA PS3539.H573 M2 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Dorothy, 1898-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sisters--Family relationships.
- Sisters.
- Nebraska--Fiction.
- Nebraska.
- Young women.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- "" Ma Jeeter, a sensible and hearty farm woman, tells the stories of the courtships of five daughters to the schoolteacher who boards with her. Ella, Bell, Lena, Laura, and Lizzie all got bitten and burdened early, thanks to the bumblebee of love. Now her youngest, Evie, is coming home to be married, and everything is as it should be.
- The Jeeters are based loosely on a funny, goodhearted family that Dorothy Thomas lived with in her schoolteaching days. H. L. Mencken, the famed editor, author, and critic, encouraged her to write these vignettes about them. Original pen and ink drawings by the author have been added to this edition.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1933.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0803244142
- 9780803244146
- 0803294050
- 9780803294059
- OCLC:
- 12946889
- Online:
- Publisher description
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