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The Harcourts : illustrating the benefit of retrenchment and reform / by a lady.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer, 1780-1865.
- Series:
- Stories from real life ; pt. 3.
- Stories from real life ; pt. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lifestyles--Fiction.
- Lifestyles.
- Saving and investment--Fiction.
- Saving and investment.
- Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction.
- Wealth.
- Simplicity--Fiction.
- Simplicity.
- Conduct of life.
- Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Louisa (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 9 unnumbered pages-144 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : S. Colman ; Boston : Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1837.
- Notes:
- "In searching out the causes of the present deranged state of the times, there is one which should not be overlooked. ... the fearful increase of luxury and ostentation in our houses, our equipages, and our dress ..."--Introduction, p. [v].
- By Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee.
- Series title page: Stories from real life; designed to teach true independence and domestic economy. In five parts.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Louisa Sprague.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints, 45147
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1620
- OCLC:
- 191244723
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