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Understood Betsy / by Dorothy Canfield ... ; illustrations by Ada C. Williamson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 658
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Juvenile fiction.
- Girls.
- Farm life--Vermont--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- Vermont--Juvenile fiction.
- Vermont.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 20th century.
- Juvenile literature -- 1917.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 271 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1917.
- Summary:
- A small and timid girl discovers her own abilities and the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
- Notes:
- Final 8 p. are publisher's advertisements.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has ms. gift inscription ("Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Helen & Georgia") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Blanck, J. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 137
- OCLC:
- 1722896
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