A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD: OUTLINED FROM MEMORY by Larcom, Lucy - 1889

Northeastern University Press, 1985. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Northeastern University Press. Good in paperback, edges show some shelf wear, "used" stamped on bottom edge, wordes "hymns & poetry" hand written on title page, littel hightlighting and some markings,Originally published in 1889, . Good. Paperback. 1985.

Gloucester, MA. Peter Smith 1973 Hardcover.. VG/no jacket. (Ex-Library copy, spine sunned, text clean/tight). 8vo. Frontis. illustration & portrait. Reprint.

Book Jungle, 2007-09-27. Paperback. Good.

Echo Library, 2007. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1973. Reprint of 1961 edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 274. Frontis portrait. Introduction by Charles T. Davis. Red cloth. Top edges spotted, cover slighty bumped and scuffed, some highlighting and notations throughout, but the text is clear. A VG tight copy. A memoir of a childhood and growing up near Beverly, MA in the 19th century. The author was a mill-worker in Lowell, and a country schoolteacher in Illinois. The book was written for girls.

Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1973. Reprint of 1961 edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 274. Frontis portrait. Introduction by Charles T. Davis. Red cloth. Top edges spotted, cover slighty bumped and scuffed. A VG tight copy. A memoir of a childhood and growing up near Beverly, MA in the 19th century. The author was a mill-worker in Lowell, and a country schoolteacher in Illinois. The book was written for girls.

MP3 Audio CD. A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD I. UP AND DOWN THE LANE. IT is strange that the spot of earth where we were born should make such a difference to us. People can live and grow anywhere, but people as well as plants have their habitat,--the place where they belong, and where they find their happiest, because their most natural life. If I had opened my eyes upon this planet elsewhere than in this northeastern corner of Massachusetts, elsewhere than on this green, rocky strip of shore between Beverly Bridge and the Misery Islands, it seems to me as if I must have been somebody else, and not myself. These gray ledges hold me by the roots, as they do the bayberry bushes, the sweet-fern, and the rock-saxifrage. When I look from my window over the tree-tops to the sea, I could almost fancy that from the deck of some one of those inward bound vessels the wistful eyes of the Lady Arbella might be turned towards this very hillside, and that mine were… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD I. UP AND DOWN THE LANE. IT is strange that the spot of earth where we were born should make such a difference to us. People can live and grow anywhere, but people as well as plants have their habitat,--the place where they belong, and where they find their happiest, because their most natural life. If I had opened my eyes upon this planet elsewhere than in this northeastern corner of Massachusetts, elsewhere than on this green, rocky strip of shore between Beverly Bridge and the Misery Islands, it seems to me as if I must have been somebody else, and not myself. These gray ledges hold me by the roots, as they do the bayberry bushes, the sweet-fern, and the rock-saxifrage. When I look from my window over the tree-tops to the sea, I could almost fancy that from the deck of some one of those inward bound vessels the wistful eyes of the Lady Arbella might be turned towards this very hillside, and that mine were… Read More