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A humble romance : and other stories / by Mary E. Wilkins.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5896
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Munroe, A. H. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 436, [8] pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Harper & Bros., [not after 1890]
- Contents:
- A humble romance
- Two old lovers
- A symphony in lavender
- A tardy thanksgiving
- A modern dragon
- An honest soul
- A taste of honey
- Brakes and white vi'lets
- Robins and hammers
- On the Walpole Road
- Old Lady Pingree
- Cinnamon roses
- The bar light-house
- A lover of flowers
- A far-away melody
- A moral exigency
- A mistaken charity
- Gentian
- An object of love
- A gatherer of simples
- An independent thinker
- In butterfly time
- An unwilling guest
- A souvenir
- An old arithmetician
- A conflict ended
- A patient waiter
- A conquest of humility.
- Notes:
- Terminus ante quem for publication date from autograph dated March 1890 at head of title leaf of Penn Libraries Schimmel Collection copy.
- Publisher's advertisement: Pages [437]-[444].
- Twenty-eight short stories.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("A.H. Munroe March 1890") at head of title leaf.
- OCLC:
- 1280312364
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