Lucy Larcom Life Letters and Diary
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1894
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.Douglas Park Media
AbeBooks seller since July 17, 2019
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 178.00
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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.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Lucy Larcom Life Letters and Diary
- Author
- Addison, Daniel Dulany
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
- Publication year
- 1894
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, 19th century, Literary Biography, Woman Writers
Douglas Park Media
Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since July 17, 2019
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In addition to a large collections of 19th century children’s books, and adult fiction we have a broad array of art books, reference materials, religion and philosophy. Lately I have been cataloguing 19th century travelogues. Also available is a large collection of 19th century and early 20th century periodicals, some bound, some still in their original condition: The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, The Century Illustrated, Lippincott’s, Putnam, The North American Review, Scribner’s, St. Nicholas Magazine. Many are not yet listed so inquiries for specific editions are welcomed. Publication dates tend to run from about 1780 to about 1960.…
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