A girl of the Limberlost / by Gene Stratton-Porter ; illustrated with scenes from the photoplay an F.B.O. picture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924.

Contributor:

Grosset & Dunlap, publisher.

Country Life Press, printer.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Girls--Fiction.

Girls.

Swamps--Fiction.

Swamps.

Indiana--Fiction.

Indiana.

Conflict of generations--Fiction.

Conflict of generations.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Love.

Self-reliance--Juvenile fiction.

Self-reliance.

Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.

Conflict of generations--Juvenile fiction.

Friendship--Juvenile fiction.

Friendship.

Moths--Collectors and collecting--Juvenile fiction.

Moths.

Swamps--Indiana--Juvenile fiction.

Self-reliance--Fiction.

Forests and forestry--Fiction.

Genre:

Bildungsromane -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements -- New York -- New York -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

ix, [4], 453, [7] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [not before 1924] (Garden City, N.Y. : Country Life Press)

Summary:

Elnora Comstock, an impoverished young girl growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp in Indiana, is a lover of nature who has an opportunity to pay for her education by collecting moths.

Notes:

Terminus ante quem for imprint from release date of the F.B.O. film of this work.

Publisher's advertisements: P. [455]-[460].

Local Notes:

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

Schimmel Collection copy has ms. gift inscription ("To Cora from Waldo") in pencil on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

6543048