The girl's reading book : in prose and poetry : for schools

The girl's reading book : in prose and poetry : for schools / By Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.

Author/creator	Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 author.
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	Fourteenth edition.
Publication Info	New York : Turner, Hughes, & Hayden ; Raleigh, N.C. : Turner & Hughes, 1845.
Description	1 online resource (243 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental Content	Gale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Subject(s)	Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737. Lathrop, Jerusha, 1717-1805. More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Ramsay, Martha Laurens, 1759-1811. Children's stories. Children's poetry. Girls--Conduct of life. Women--Biography. Children--Books and reading. Birds. Fathers and daughters--Juvenile literature. Poor. Siblings--Juvenile literature. Temperance--Juvenile literature. Children and death. Indians of North America. Greece--History --War of Independence, 1821-1829.

Uniform title	Book for girls
Series	Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
General note	Spine title: Book for girls. Issued earlier under the title A book for girls, in prose and poetry.
General note	"Especially am I interested in the young of my own sex. For them this volume has been framed, on the principle of combining with the accomplishment of reading, sentiments that are feminine in their character, and knowledge that enters into the elements of woman's duty."--p. 6, signed L.H.S., dated at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 1, 1837. Includes biographies.
General note	Copyright 1837 by L.H. Sigourney.
General note	"Stereotyped by Francis F. Ripley."--verso of title page.
General note	Last page blank.
General note	Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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