The pickaninny twins / by Lucy Fitch Perkins ; illustrated by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Lucy Fitch, 1865-1937, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children--Juvenile fiction.

African American children.

Twins--Juvenile fiction.

Twins.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

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

Pillsbury, Sarah, 1927-1945 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Pillsbury, Josephine Park, 1896-1965 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Pillsbury, Edwin Sprague, 1896-1973 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

v [1], 152, [1] pages illustrations 22 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1931.

Place of Publication:

Boston; and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931.

Summary:

Perkins wrote a series of children's books known as "The Twins Books," almost all of which were made up of a boy and a girl. Each book took place in a different country or time in America's past. The main purpose of these stories seemed to be to make life in foreign cultures and past times easily accessable to "modern" American children. In this novel, Samson and Delilah (Sammy and Dilly) enjoy various escapades -- tearing their clothes, trampling their neighbor's garden, running away, nearly drowning themselves -- which their doting mother, Mammy Jinny, fondly overlooks. The "Negro dialect" which all the characters speak is so thick as to almost defy comprehension

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("Sarah Pillsbury Sept 30, 1936 from Mother and Daddy") recording the gift of this volume to Sarah Pillsbury (1927-1945) from her parents Edwin Sprague Pillsbury (1896-1973) and Josephine Effa Pillsbury (née Park; 1896-1965) on front pastedown; autograph ("Sarah Pillsbury 220 Alvarado Berk Calif") of Sarah Pillsbury (as above) in blue ink on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1669310