When they were children ; stories of the childhood of famous men and women / by Amy Steedman.
| Author/creator |
Steedman, Amy |
| Other author/creator | Skelton, Joseph Ratcliffe, 1865-1927, illustrator. |
| Other author/creator | Kindale, Edith, inscriber. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : T. Nelson and Sons, [1926?] |
| Description | x (i.e. ix) pages, 1 leaf, 387 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : color frontispiece, color plates ; 21 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Saint Augustine. -- St. Louis of France. -- Giotto. -- St. Catherine of Siena. -- Jeanne d'Arc. -- Michael Angelo. -- Queen Elizabeth. -- Mary Queen of Scots. -- Louis XIII. -- Sir Isaac Newton. -- Samuel Johnson. -- Frederick the Great. -- Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. -- George Washington. -- Goethe. -- Mozart. -- Horatio Nelson. -- Arthur, Duke of Wellington. -- Napoleon Bonaparte. -- Sir Walter Scott. -- Elizabeth Fry. -- George Stephenson. -- Sir John Franklin. -- Hans Andersen. -- Abraham Lincoln. -- Alfred Tennyson. -- William Makepeace Thackeray. -- Charles Dickens. -- Robert Browing. -- David Livingstone. -- Richard Wagner. -- Jean-Francois Millet. -- Charlotte Bronte and her sisters. -- John Ruskin. -- Queen Victoria. -- George Eliot. -- Florence Nightingale. -- Jenny Lind. -- Rosa Bonheur. -- John Coleridge Patteson. -- Sir John Everett Millais. -- Louisa Alcott. -- Charles George Gordon. -- Thomas Alva Edison. -- Robert Louis Stevenson. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes inscription: "Christmas 1943 from Edith Kindale" on front flyleaf. |
| General note | Illustrated by J.R. Skelton. |
| General note | Includes illustrated endpapers. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Rare copy gift of Ann Wicker Harrison, January, 2022 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile literature. |
| LCCN | 26026578 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | Rare Collection | CT107 .S73X 1926 | ✔ Available | Request Material |