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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Water Cress Girl or, Little Aggy: [Two Lines of Text From Isaiah] |
| Date | c.1869 |
| Record ID | 218213 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Sub Collection | Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators |
| Reference | CL L636 W324 1869 |
| Theme | Poverty, Debt and Welfare Illness and Death Religion Women in Publishing |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Poor--Juvenile literature Child labor--Juvenile literature City and town life--Juvenile literature Mentally ill--Juvenile literature Children--Death--Religious aspects--Juvenile literature Child abuse--Juvenile literature Jews--Juvenile literature Abduction--Juvenile literature Orphanages--Juvenile literature Women as authors London (England)--Juvenile literature |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Author | Leslie, Madeline (1815-1893) Mayhew, Henry (1812-1887) |
| Publisher | Henry A Young & Co |
| Places | Boston |
| Illustrator | Harley, J |
| Document Type | Novel |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1869 Relief prints Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1869 Bookplates (Provenance) |
| Size | [2], v-ix, [1], 11-160 p., [3] leaves of plates ; 16 cm |
| Additional Notes | Baker, Abijah Richardson (1805-1876), copyright holder; Pierce, William J, engraver. |
| Catalog Notes | "The author gratefully acknowledges her obligation for some of the incidents narrated in the life of The water-cress girl, to Henry Mayhew's Poor of London, and to personal friends lately resident in that city."--Prefatory note, p. vi. By Harriette Newell Woods Baker [i.e., "Madeline Leslie"]. Copyright 1869 by A.R. Baker. According to Boston city directories, Henry A. Young & Co. published at 24 Cornhill from 1868 to 1874. In purple cloth. Plates engraved on wood; series title plate signed "J. Harley del" and "Peirce" [i.e., William J. Pierce?]. "The rosy dawn stories"--series title, first plate. Numbered list, p. v. |
| American Antiquarian Society Copy Notes | American Antiquarian Society copy bears bookplate: Sunday-school library of the Halifax Centre Baptist Church. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |