The Peterkin Papers (Dodo Press): Collection Of Stories About A Family Named Peterkin Which Made The Peterkins A Household Word. The Collected Stories Were Published - Softcover

Hale, Lucretia P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406515752 ISBN 13: 9781406515756

Publisher: Dodo Press, 2007

Synopsis

Collection of stories about a family named Peterkin which made the Peterkins a household word. The collected stories were published in 1880 under the title The Peterkin Papers. The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy-but not common sense. The stories are charming to modern readers for the details they give of life in the 1870s as lived by an upper-middle-class family in a small village about an hour's train ride from Boston.

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About the Author

LUCRETIA P. HALE (1820-1900) is best known as the author of a series of stories about a family named Peterkin, the first of which appeared in 1867 in the magazine "Our Young Folks" (later "St. Nicholas Magazine"). The series continued for nine years, and made the Peterkins a household name. In addition to writing, Hale helped her brother Edward edit the "Old and New Magazine" from 1870 to 1875. She was concerned with education and in 1874 was one of the first six women elected to the Boston School Committee, where she served two terms. Her last book, "The New Harry and Lucy," appeared in 1892.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dodo Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1406515752
• ISBN 13: 9781406515756
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 146