A Little Girl in Old New York
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Chapter I: The Little Girl
19:16 -
Chapter II: Good-by to an Old Home
23:08 -
Chapter III: Fine Feathers for the Little Wren
24:49 -
Chapter IV: A Look at Old New York
23:46 -
Chapter V: Girls and Girls
27:14 -
Chapter VI: Miss Dolly Beekman
21:50 -
Chapter VII: Miss Lois and Sixty Years Ago
37:52 -
Chapter VIII: The End of the World
26:09 -
Chapter IX: A Wonderful Scheme
27:03 -
Chapter X: A Merry Christmas
24:52 -
Chapter XI: The Little Girl in Politics
30:36 -
Chapter XII: A Real Party
27:22 -
Chapter XIII: New Relations
24:27 -
Chapter XIV: John Robert Charles
26:33 -
Chapter XV: A Play in the Backyard
24:43 -
Chapter XVI: Daisy Jasper
25:46 -
Chapter XVII: Some Old Landmarks
25:14 -
Chapter XVIII: Sundry Dissipations
29:55 -
Chapter XIX: When Christmas Bells Were Ringing
18:03
A Little Girl in Old New York (1896) is a public domain work.
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Hannah Ann Underhill is just past seven, a quiet girl who goes on sewing her patchwork while she weighs her father's question: how would she like to move the whole family from their farm at Yonkers to New York? She takes her time, as her great-aunt taught her, and sets the city's museum, its omnibuses and its sociable-looking houses against the orchard, the meadows and the creek.
Douglas wrote this in 1896 for a young reader of her own day, and she fills it with the small details of an older city: the Tea Water Pump, milkmen carrying cans on a yoke, chimney sweeps, the Collect pond where Canal Street now runs. Aunts, cousins and parents describe the town as they remember it, and the chapters move through a Christmas, a party, a play in the backyard and a walk among the old landmarks.
It is a gentle family story about a large household and its youngest member, and a pleasant way to see how people lived and spoke in a much earlier New York.
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- Amanda M. Douglas
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