The Unseen Friend

LARCOM, Lucy

Verlag: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1892

Beschreibung

First edition. 12mo. Publisher's white cloth decorated and titled in gilt. The white boards a trifle soiled, still easily near fine. A collection of essays on friendship and God. Inscribed by the author to Mary V. Claflin: "Mrs. Claflin, with the love of Her friend, Lucy Larcom. Beverly. June 17, 1892." As a girl Larcom worked in the Lowell textile mills where she also contributed to the *Lowell Offering* where her poems attracted the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. She taught at the Wheaton Female Seminary and later edited several magazines for children and adolescents, including *Our Young Folks*. Her ascension from mill girl to author and editor served as a model for American women and girls of the lower classes in the mid-19th Century. Mary Claflin was the wife of the abolitionist and progressive Governor of Massachusetts, William Claflin, who according to his biography at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, which holds the William and Mary Claflin Papers: "While governor, Claflin promoted women's suffrage and extended to women greater rights under the law." A very nice association. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 398405

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Unseen Friend

Verlag: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1892

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage