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A Little Girl in Old New York

by Amanda M. Douglas

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Read by Ritu Aarcee, Christina Maria Wendt, Elsie Selwyn and others · 8 h 8 min · 19 parts

  1. Chapter I: The Little Girl

    19:16

  2. Chapter II: Good-by to an Old Home

    23:08

  3. Chapter III: Fine Feathers for the Little Wren

    24:49

  4. Chapter IV: A Look at Old New York

    23:46

  5. Chapter V: Girls and Girls

    27:14

  6. Chapter VI: Miss Dolly Beekman

    21:50

  7. Chapter VII: Miss Lois and Sixty Years Ago

    37:52

  8. Chapter VIII: The End of the World

    26:09

  9. Chapter IX: A Wonderful Scheme

    27:03

  10. Chapter X: A Merry Christmas

    24:52

  11. Chapter XI: The Little Girl in Politics

    30:36

  12. Chapter XII: A Real Party

    27:22

  13. Chapter XIII: New Relations

    24:27

  14. Chapter XIV: John Robert Charles

    26:33

  15. Chapter XV: A Play in the Backyard

    24:43

  16. Chapter XVI: Daisy Jasper

    25:46

  17. Chapter XVII: Some Old Landmarks

    25:14

  18. Chapter XVIII: Sundry Dissipations

    29:55

  19. Chapter XIX: When Christmas Bells Were Ringing

    18:03

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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

Amanda M. Douglas (1831-1916) was an American novelist, short story writer and children's writer. She wrote fiction for both older and younger readers, including series for young people published in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Her titles include "A Little Girl in Old New York" and "Helen Grant's Schooldays".

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Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
183
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Ritu Aarcee, Christina Maria Wendt, Elsie Selwyn and others