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Author Richards, Caroline Cowles, 1842-1913.

Title Village life in America, 1852-1872 : including the period of the American civil war, as told in the diary of a school-girl / By Caroline Cowles Richards, with an introduction by Margaret E. Sangster.

Publication Info. Williamstown, Mass. : Corner House, 1972.
©1908

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.6 C597V    Check Shelf
Edition New and enlarged edition.
Description 224 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 20 cm
Contents Introduction / by Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster -- The villages -- The villagers -- 1852: Family notes ; Famous school-girls ; Hoop skirts -- 1853: Runaways ; Bible study ; Essays ; Catechism -- 1854: Lake picnic ; Pyramid of beauty ; Governor Clark -- 1855: Preachers ; James and John : Votes for women -- 1856: The fire ; Sleighing and prayer ; Father's advice -- 1857: Truants and pickles ; Candle stories ; The snuffers -- 1858: Tableaux and charades ; Spiritual seance -- 1859: E.M. Morse ; Letter from the North Pole -- 1860: Gymnastics ; Troublesome comforts -- 1861: President Lincoln's Inauguration ; Civil War ; School enthusiasm -- 1862: Gough lectures ; President's call for three hundred thousand men ; Mission zeal -- 1863: A soldier's death ; General M'Clellan's letter ; President Lincoln's address at Gettysburg -- 1864: Grandfather Beals' death ; Anna graduates -- President Lincoln's second Inaugural Address ; Fall of Richmond ; Murder of Lincoln -- 1866: Freedman's fair ; General Grant and Admiral Farragut visit Canandaigua -- 1867: Brother John and wife go to London ; Lecture by Charles Dickens -- 1871: Hon. George H. Stuart speaks in Canandaigua ; A large collection -- 1872: Grandmother Beals' death ; Biography -- 1880: Anna's marriage.
Note Reprint of 1908 ed.
Subject United States -- History -- 1849-1877.
United States -- Description and travel -- 1849-1877.
Richards, Caroline Cowles, 1842-1913.
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