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Elizabeth Wetherell

 

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Elizabeth Wetherell : The Old Helmet

'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughters books ... [including] a particular object of [Barlow's] derision, "The Old Helmet": "I had heard so much about this book that when it came my way when I was sixteen, I pounced on it eagerly ... [gives mocking summary of romantic, historical plot] ... A movng story, indeed, but wasted on us."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Amy Barlow      Print: Book

  

Elizabeth Wetherell : Queechy

'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson      Print: Book

  

Elizabeth Wetherell : The Wide, Wide World

'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wide World".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson      Print: Book

  

Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner) : Queechy

'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Misses Jaffray      Print: Book

 

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