The ocean child : or, Showers and sunshine : a tale of girlhood

Date:

1859.

Author:

Myrtle, Harriet, 1811?-1876.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH M998 O34 1859 LOCAL

Publisher:

Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (Farrington St, New York: 56 Walker Street)

Abstract:

A shipwrecked child, coming from India to England, struggles to adjust to life as a poor orphan in an alien country but finds unconditional love in the home of a woman who later discovers the girl is her niece and a missing heiress.

Physical Description:

vii, 308 pages, 7 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy imperfect: pages 175-176 are wanting. LOCAL

Subjects:

Children Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Orphans Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession Juvenile fiction, Culture shock Juvenile fiction, Aunts Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks Juvenile fiction, Aunts, Children Conduct of life, Conduct of life, Culture shock, Inheritance and succession, Orphans, and Shipwrecks

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works