Research Catalog

Title

Penelope's English experiences, by Kate Douglas Wiggin, with fifty-three illustrations by Chares E. Brock.

Author

Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

Publication

Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1900.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

• Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938
• Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

xi, 176 p. incl. front., illus.; 20 cm.

Summary

Three American women, ages 20, 30 and 40, travel around England.

Series Statement

Penelope's experiences. England. v. 1

Alternative Title

Penelope's experiences, England

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Americans > England > Juvenile fiction
• England > Description and travel
• England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Juvenile fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Juvenile works

Indexed In (note)

• BAL

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The weekly bill -- The powdered footman smiles -- Eggs a la coque -- The English sence of humor -- A Hyde Park Sunday -- The English park lover -- A ducal tea party -- Tuppenny travels in London -- A table of kindred and affinity -- Apropos of advertisements -- The ball on the opposite side -- Patricia makes her debut -- A Penelope secret -- Love and lavender -- Penelope dreams -- The decay of romance -- Short stops and long bills -- I meet Mrs. Bobby -- The heart of the artist -- A canticle to Jane -- "I remember, I remember" -- Comfort cottage -- Tea served here -- An unlicensed victualer -- Et ego in arcadia vixit.

LCCN

^^^01029111^//r19

OCLC

4404437

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library