The president's daughters / by Frederika Bremer ; translated by Mary Howitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865.

Contributor:

Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Harper's library of select novels ; no. 21-22.

Harper's library of select novels

Standardized Title:

Presidentens döttrar. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Governesses--Fiction.

Governesses.

Children of presidents--Fiction.

Children of presidents.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Chapin, Sarah R. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Thayer, Louisa A. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Bros., 1843.

Notes:

At head of title: Life in Sweden.

Vol. 2 has sub-title: Nina.

Series from cover.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy imperfect: v. 2 only.

Schimmel Collection copy is no. 6 in a vol. of 6 works by Frederika Bremer, each published in 1843 by Harper and Brothers or James Munroe.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Sarah R. Chapin Uxbridge 1843.") of Sarah R. Chapin (née Thayer; 1819-1869) of Uxbridge, Mass., in brown ink on blank leaf preceding title leaf of first work in vol.; contemporary ms. inscription ("Louisa") in brown ink on blank leaf preceding back free endpaper and later(?) ms. inscription ("Louisa A. Thayer Uxbridge Mass-") in pencil on back free endpaper, both possibly referring to Louisa A. Thayer (later Chapin; ca. 1835-1886), Sarah's sister.

Related Work:

Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865. Nina.

Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865. Life in Sweden.

OCLC:

7544514