Suwanee River tales / by Sherwood Bonner ; with illustrations by F.T. Merrill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner, 1849-1883.

Contributor:

Merrill, Frank T., 1848-1923.

Kirk, Sophia.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1884.

Summary:

Eighteen short stories which reflect life in the South in the nineteenth century, particularly the attitudes toward blacks.

Contents:

I. Gran'mammy: Gran'mammy ; Why Gran'mammy didn't like pound-cake ; The night the stars fell ; How Gran'mammy broke the news ; Coming home to roost ; Gran'mammy's last gifts

II. Four sweet girls of Dixie: A shorn lamb ; C.G., or, Lily's earrings ; Maddy Gascar and the professor ; Peacock feathers

III. A ring of tales for younger folks: Tobey's fortune ; Mars' Colton's lesson ; Dear eyelashes ; Rosine's story ; Léonie

The crest of the white hat ; The end of the dancing-school at Danville ; The finding of Absalom.

Notes:

Preface signed: Sophia Kirk.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has [4] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at end of volume.

Schimmel Collection copy: title leaf partially detached.

Cited in:

BAL 12255

OCLC:

2946130