Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington, and others of the family [electronic resource] / edited by B.P. Shillaber.
1854
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Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington, and others of the family [electronic resource] / edited by B.P. Shillaber.
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New York : J.C. Derby, 1854 (Boston : Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, printed by John A. Gray)
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English
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1 online resource (384 p., [8] leaves of plates) : ill.
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Ruth Partington was the prototype for Mark Twain's Aunt Polly and Ike for Tom Sawyer.
The frontispiece was used as the last illustration of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
Two illustrations by Nathan Brown and engraved by Baker Andrew and W. Wurzbach; five illustrations by Frederick M. Coffin and engraved by N. Orr; the frontispiece by Josiah Wolcott.
Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.
The frontispiece was used as the last illustration of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
Two illustrations by Nathan Brown and engraved by Baker Andrew and W. Wurzbach; five illustrations by Frederick M. Coffin and engraved by N. Orr; the frontispiece by Josiah Wolcott.
Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks.
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