Lucy Larcom Life Letters and Diary
Addison, Daniel Dulany
From Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 17, 2019
From Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 17, 2019
About this Item
Poet, abolitionist, and teacher Lucy Larcom was born in 1824 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Larcom s father, a sea captain, died when she was young, and her mother moved the family to Lowell, where her mother ran a boarding house. Larcom began working in the Lowell textile mills with her sisters when she was just eleven years old. During this time, her poems and stories began appearing in periodicals such as the Lowell Offering, and she first met the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who became an early supporter of her work. When she was 22, Larcom moved west with her sisters and became a teacher, first in Illinois and later at Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts. Larcom Hall on the Wheaton College Campus is named for her. Her most enduring work is generally considered to be her autobiography, A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (1889). This biography, by Daniel Dulany Addison, reviews her writing as well as her work in education. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press Cambrdige, 1894, 1894. 8 vo. Orig dark blue cloth. A bright solid copy. BAL 11394 Holograph inscription by Larcom laid down on second free fly, presumably an extract from the close of a letter, My love to Laura, to all at home whom Sarah loved. Truly and affectionately yours, Lucy Larcom. Frontispiece is a tissue guarded image of Larcom seated in a wicker chair reading. Back of frontis shows some foxing, otherwise text block is bright and clean, binding square and tight. End papers a battle ship grey. A light penciled gift inscription dated Christmas 1894 on ffl. Pp viii, 295 including index. Seller Inventory # 2104-14
Bibliographic Details
Title: Lucy Larcom Life Letters and Diary
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
Publication Date: 1894
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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