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A tourist's New England : travel fiction, 1820-1920
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A tourist's New England : travel fiction, 1820-1920

Author: Dona Brown
Publisher: Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1999.
Series: Hardscrabble books
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dona Brown
ISBN: 0874519004 9780874519006
OCLC Number: 40135371
Description: viii, 217 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne, from "Sketches from memory" (1835) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, from "The ambitious guest" (1835) -- Sarah Josephs Hale, "The romance of travelling" from Traits of American life (1835) -- Susan Warner, from Nobody (1882) -- Charles Dudley Warner, from Their pilgrimage (1886) -- Emma Dunham Kelley, from Megda (1891) -- Susan and Anna Warner, from The gold of Chickaree (1876) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Pink and white tyranny: a society novel (1871) -- Edith Wharton, from Summer (1917) -- Edward Bellamy, from Six to one: a Nantucket Idyl (1878) -- Sarah Orne Jewett, from Deephaven (1877) -- Thomas Nelson Page, "Miss Godwin's inheritance," Scribner's magazine (1904) -- William Dean Howells, from The Vacation of the Kelwyns (1920) -- Sinclair Lewis, from Babbitt (1922).
Series Title: Hardscrabble books
Responsibility: Dona Brown, editor.

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Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.

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