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A humble romance and other stories / by Mary E. Wilkins.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6851
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, [4], 11-309, [13] pages ; 14 cm
- Edition:
- Author's edition.
- Manufacture:
- [Edinburgh] : Edinburgh University Press : T. and A. Constable ...
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh [Scotland] : David Douglas, Castle Street, 1891.
- 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 couquest of humility.
- Notes:
- "Author's preface to the Edinburgh edition"--Page [v]-vi.
- Publisher's advertisements at beginning and end of book.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has publisher's advertisement laid in.
- OCLC:
- 154314570
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