The heart's highway : a romance of Virginia in the seventeenth century / by Mary E. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

J.J. Little & Co., printer.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.

Virginia.

Slavery--Virginia--Fiction.

Slavery.

Tobacco farms--Virginia--Fiction.

Tobacco farms.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

Young, Elizabeth (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 308 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[Variant edition]

Manufacture:

New York : Press of J.J. Little & Co. Astor Place.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900.

Notes:

Frontispiece plate with tissue guard.

"List of Illustrations: 'She held in Merry Roger until I was forced to come up and ... a mock-bird was singing somewhere over on the bank of the river'--Frontispiece. 'I flung myself upon her and threw her like a feather to one side'--Facing page 34. 'We ... passed the Negro huts, swarming with black babies'--Facing page 68. 'Captain Tabor ... remained silent for a space, his brows knitted'--Facing page 112."--Preliminary page [5].

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Elizabeth Young") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

BAL 636259

OCLC:

1280137302