Caroline Cowles Richards
Auteur de Village life in America, 1852-1872, including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Caroline Cowles Richards
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Canandaigua, New York
- Études
- Ontario Female Seminary
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 58
- Popularité
- #284,346
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
This book could benefit from some editorial clarifications. On page 105 the author mentions “a ball game.” What would that mean? Not what it would mean to us today. On page 149 she writes, “All the girls wear newspaper bustles to school now.” What was “a newspaper bustle”? Why are prices sometimes quoted in shillings? But a very readable book.
Worth reading if you want to escape to upper New York in the 1850s. Lots of quaint details about daily life. Fashions, pastimes, what people were thinking. Lots of humor. How I wish my ancestors had kept such a journal! Illustrated with ambrotypes and daguerrotypes.… (plus d'informations)