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The tawny girl, or The history of Margaret Russel : illustrating the benefits of education on the most degraded classes of society.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial children--Biography.
- Multiracial children.
- Children--Biography.
- Children.
- Girls--Biography.
- Girls.
- Poor.
- Prejudices.
- Occupations.
- Orphans.
- Tuberculosis.
- Russel, Margaret, 1805 or 1806-1821.
- Russel, Margaret.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Tawny girl, or The history of Margaret Russel
- Place of Publication:
- Samuel Wood & Sons ;
- Notes:
- Publisher's catalogue of juvenile books on back cover.
- "The subject of this little narrative, was a young person in the lowest rank of life, uninstructed, and exposed to the corruptions and misery incident to that degraded condition: and yet, when the benevolent and fostering hand of charity was extended to her, she gratefully received the benefit, and, ... improved it to her own comfort and enlargement of mind."--Preface, p. [v].
- In stiff-paper cover.
- Wood-engraved frontispiece signed by Alexander Anderson features a girl of color reading to a white woman who is lying in bed.
- "Juvenile books, published by Samuel Wood & Sons, New-York; And Samuel S. Wood & Co. Baltimore."--advertisement, lower cover.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162341138
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