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Holiness, or The legend of St. George: : a tale from Spencer's Faerie queene / by a mother.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1778-1853.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- George, Saint, -303.
- George.
- Children's stories.
- Knights and knighthood--Juvenile fiction.
- Knights and knighthood.
- Princesses--Juvenile fiction.
- Princesses.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 182 pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Legend of St. George
- Legend of St. George, or Holiness
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Published by E. R. Broaders, 1836.
- Notes:
- "Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, Printer, 52 Washington Street."--T.p. verso.
- "Charles Lamb's Tales of Shakspeare, and James Cowden Clarke's Tales of Chaucer, suggested writing out the Legends of the Faerie Queene. For Spencer [sic] needs translation; his obsolete dialect throwing him out of the reach of children ..."--Preface, p. [iii], dated: December, 1835.
- "Appendix of notes": p. [175]-182.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints, 39438
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 2027
- OCLC:
- 4843304
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