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Snow-White : or, The house in the wood / by Laura E. Richards.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943, author.
- Series:
- Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943. Captain January series
- Captain January series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Runaway children--Juvenile fiction.
- Runaway children.
- Dwarfs--Juvenile fiction.
- Dwarfs.
- Kindness--Juvenile fiction.
- Kindness.
- Wealth--Juvenile fiction.
- Wealth.
- Teasing--Juvenile fiction.
- Teasing.
- Despair--Juvenile fiction.
- Despair.
- Suicide--Juvenile fiction.
- Suicide.
- Happiness--Juvenile fiction.
- Happiness.
- Marriage--Juvenile fiction.
- Marriage.
- Runaway children--Fiction.
- Kindness--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Smith, Jessie F. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Stoch, Marie (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 preliminary leaves, 93 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 20 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Boston, Mass. : Electrotyped and printed by C.H. Simonds & Co., 1900.
- Other Title:
- House in the wood
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Dana Estes & Company, 1900.
- Summary:
- A little girl, whose parents are traveling, has been left in the care of a Nanny she doesn't like, runs away. After trudging beside a river all day, she enters the woods and finds a little house that looks like the one in the story. She soon discovers that this is the home of a dwarf, who knows how to take care of little girls. But this is not the dwarf of fairy tales. This is a man who has turned away from society, and now must be taught how to love again.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisement on verso of half-title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century ms. inscription ("To Jessie F. Smith 1029 Penn Street Reading Pa From Marie Stoch Nov. 23rd 1901") recording the gift of this volume from Marie Stoch to Jessie F. Smith (later Alexander; 1890-1977) on 23 November 1901 in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943. Snow-White
- OCLC:
- 2161474
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