Sketches and Stories from Life: For the Young

[LEE, Hannah Farnham Sawyer]

Published by Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols, Boston, 1850

About this Item

First edition. 12mo. 223pp. Embossed red cloth, spine stamped in gilt with the spine title: "Stories From Life / Mrs. Lee"). Owner's early pencil name on front flyleaf; binding is rubbed, with light wear at tips of spine and corners, endpapers and few leaves of text are foxed, else a very good or better copy. A collection of short stories and one 18-page play, and morality tales for children, including "Lucy and her Monkey, "Poor Billy," " Ellinor's Visit to Her Three Aunts," "The Pilot," "The Two Brothers," "The Old Pocket-Book," "The Boarding School" [A Drama], "A Story of the Indians," "The New Mother," "The Chapel in Tremont Street," "The Two Friends," "The Casket," "The First Day of a New-England Spring in My Native Town," and others. Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee was the author of *Three Experiments of Living,* her most successful book. She began writing professionally when she was fifty-two years old, writing fiction, non-fiction, and educational books, such as *Historical Sketches of Old Painters* (1838), *Rosanna, or Scenes in Boston* (1839), *The Life and Times of Thomas Cranmer* (1841), and *Memoir of Pierre Toussaint* (1853). She does not appear to have published anything after 1854 and she died in obscurity in Boston in 1865 [per AAS]. Uncommon. *OCLC* locates eight holdings.

Seller Inventory # 523986

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sketches and Stories from Life: For the Young
• Publisher: Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols, Boston
• Publication Date: 1850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-Americana