The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Peabody Hale
Meet the Peterkins, a lovable crew with a notable lack of common sense. These comic tales chronicle their roundabout attempts to solve simple, everyday problems. Cheerful and energetic, the close-knit family of eight resides in a village near Boston. They play their piano from the front porch because the movers left it with the keyboard facing the parlor window, and they're ready to raise the ceiling to make way for a towering Christmas tree. Only the timely intervention of the wise old lady from Philadelphia keeps them from acting on their more elaborate madcap schemes.Author Lucretia Hale, sister to writer and cleric Edward Everett Hale, helped break new ground in children's literature by writing stories to amuse young people rather than instruct or uplift them. These tales first appeared in 1867 in a popular children's magazine of the era, and in the course of a decade, the Peterkins became a household word. The years pass them along to every new generation, noted Harper's Bazaar, with the hint that human nature is about the same everywhere and all the time. Hailed by The New York Times as a masterpiece and graced with 153 delightful black-and-white illustrations, this book offers a glimpse of nineteenth-century New England life that charms readers of all ages
Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900) was descended from two of New England's most illustrious families and grew up surrounded by Boston's nineteenth-century intelligentsia. Her father, Nathan Hale, was the publisher of The Boston Daily Advertiser; her uncle Edward Everett was a United States senator and later the president of Harvard; and her brother Edward Everett Hale was a well-known Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist. She was educated at progressive schools and, from a young age, helped her father with various editorial tasks at his paper. By the time she was in her twenties, she was able to support herself by writing for several publications, including The Atlantic Monthly. Hale liked to amuse her young friends and relations with tales of the antic Peterkin family, and when Our Folks, a popular children's magazine, issued a call for fiction that was not just morally improving, she sent some of her stories. The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee was published in 1868 and proved an instant success; stories continued to appear for nine years and were collected in two volumes. Hale was also active in charity and politics, overcoming fierce opposition, from her brother Charles among others, to be elected as the first woman member of the Boston School Committee.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781922348234 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922348236 |
| Title | The Peterkin Papers |
| Author | Lucretia Peabody Hale |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Living Book Press |
| Year published | 2020-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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