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Samantha in Europe / by Josiah Allen's wife (Marietta Holley) ; illustrated by C. De Grimm.
LIBRA - Rare PS1949.H5 S26 1896
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Fiction.
- Europe.
- American fiction--19th century.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Physical Description:
- xv, [1], 714, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1896.
- Summary:
- Marietta Holley was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics.
- Contents:
- Trans of Retrospection
- A Heathen Missionary
- Off into Side Paths
- Samantha's Sword of Truth and Justice
- A Heathen's Standard of Morality
- A Little Fun and Its Price
- The Embarkation
- Landing in the Emerald Isle
- A Visit to Blarney Castle
- Killarney, Dublin, and a Wake
- Josiah as a Banshee
- Robert Burns and Highland Mary
- Edinburgh and Mary Queen of Scots
- Memories of Sir Walter Scott
- Old York and Its Cathedral
- Edensor and the Duke of Devonshire
- Josiah has an Adventure
- Shottery and Warwick Castle
- The Lake District and Its Poets
- The Arrival in London
- Westminster and Parliament Houses
- Samantha Sees a Doctor
- St. Paul's and the Duke of Wellington
- "The Widder Albert"
- A Visit to the British Museum
- Paris and Its Beauties
- Napoleon and other Great Frenchmen
- Germany and Belgium
- Samantha Climbs the Righi
- Milan, Genoa, Venice
- Colosseum and Catacombs
- Fashionable Watering-Places
- Cathedrals and Castles in Spain
- Josiah's Devotion
- The Queen, Ulaley, and a Bull-Fight
- A Spanish Funeral and a Jonesville One
- Al Faizi Says Good-Bye
- Home Again, from a Foreign Shore
- Martin's Terrible Lesson
- Good-Night, Little Pardner.
- Notes:
- "Copyright, 1895, by Funk & Wagnalls Company"--Title page verso.
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Green cloth covered boards with embossed design and gilt lettering with black and silver decorations on front cover and spine.
- Local Notes:
- PS1949.H5.S26 1896: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has some bent pages.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926. Samantha in Europe.
- OCLC:
- 1243417
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