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A girl of the Limberlost / by Gene Stratton-Porter ; illustrated by Wladyslaw T. Benda.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6498
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Fiction.
- Girls.
- Swamps--Fiction.
- Swamps.
- Indiana--Fiction.
- Indiana.
- Conflict of generations--Fiction.
- Conflict of generations.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- 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.
- Love.
- Natural history.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Seltze, J. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix [5], 433, [5] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap publishers, [not before 1921]
- 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 post quem for publication date from latest date of first publication of works advertised in volume.
- Illustrated title page.
- Publisher's advertisements at beginning and end of volume.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mr. J. Seltze") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 1422097967
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