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The girl's reading book : in prose and poetry : for schools / By Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Standardized Title:
- Book for girls
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Children's poetry.
- Girls--Conduct of life.
- Girls.
- Women--Biography.
- Women.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Children.
- Birds.
- Fathers and daughters--Juvenile literature.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Poor.
- Siblings--Juvenile literature.
- Siblings.
- Temperance--Juvenile literature.
- Temperance.
- Children and death.
- Indians of North America.
- Greece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829.
- Greece.
- Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737.
- Rowe, Elizabeth Singer.
- Lathrop, Jerusha, 1717-1805.
- Lathrop, Jerusha.
- More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
- More, Hannah.
- Ramsay, Martha Laurens, 1759-1811.
- Ramsay, Martha Laurens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Fourteenth edition.
- Other Title:
- Girl's reading book
- Place of Publication:
- Turner, Hughes, & Hayden ;
- Notes:
- Spine title: Book for girls. Issued earlier under the title A book for girls, in prose and poetry.
- "Especially am I interested in the young of my own sex. For them this volume has been framed, on the principle of combining with the accomplishment of reading, sentiments that are feminine in their character, and knowledge that enters into the elements of woman's duty."--p. 6, signed L.H.S., dated at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 1, 1837. Includes biographies.
- Copyright 1837 by L.H. Sigourney.
- "Stereotyped by Francis F. Ripley."--verso of title page.
- Last page blank.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162600264
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