Half-a-dozen housekeepers : a story for girls in half-a-dozen chapters

Date:

©1903.

Author:

Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH W655 H3 LOCAL

Publisher:

Henry Altemus

Abstract:

Six young women take up housekeeping for two weeks while Bell's parents are out of town.

Physical Description:

ix, 162 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:

BAL 72631

Curator Notes:

Altemus, c 1903, but this story (by 'Kartharine D. Smith') 1st appeared in St. Nicholas, Nov. 1878-Jan. 1879, and was an early portrayal of the spinster Sawyer sisters who would become the aunts in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; spine and front cover titles printed in white on gray cloth, front cover decorations printed in white, green and pink

Subjects:

Young women Juvenile fiction, Housekeeping Juvenile fiction, Cooking Juvenile fiction, Single women Juvenile fiction, Cooking, Housekeeping, Single women, and Young women

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works