A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia
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Dedication
1:10 -
Here and There
22:49 -
Bessy Wardour
26:32 -
In a New World
29:05 -
Of Many Things
25:51 -
A Bouleversement
30:11 -
To the Rescue
23:58 -
At Some Crossroads
34:35 -
A Little Rebel
38:11 -
Fate To the Fore
21:45 -
To Turn and Fight
29:12 -
A Rift of Suspicion
31:44 -
True To Her Colors
22:07 -
Under the Rose
24:38 -
For Native Land and Loyalty
32:21 -
Parting
34:00 -
Love and True Love
31:22 -
Mid War's Alarms
30:30 -
Whom Shall She Pity
28:26 -
Midnight Tidings of Great Joy
32:53 -
When the World Went Well
23:34 -
An April Girl
30:55 -
Polly and Phil
21:22 -
Primrose
43:56 -
The Old and the New
16:49
A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia (1890) is a public domain work.
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Primrose is a yellow-haired country child who swings her sunbonnet in the orchard until her Quaker aunt calls her a heedless girl. Life on the farm is plain: gray homespun, scrubbed floors, speech full of "thee" and "thou". Then word comes that she must spend her winters in town with a wealthy relation, Madam Wetherill, where a tutor, a spinet and dancing lessons are waiting.
Amanda M. Douglas, who lived from 1831 to 1916, sets her novel in Philadelphia during the American Revolution. As Primrose moves between the strict household and the fashionable one, the war comes closer. The British army holds the city, and some of the townspeople quietly gather money, clothes and blankets to send to the American soldiers at Valley Forge. Chapter titles such as "A Little Rebel" and "Mid War's Alarms" mark the stages of her growing up.
It suits readers who enjoy historical fiction with a young girl at its center and careful detail of Quaker homes, old markets and a city divided in its loyalties.
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- Amanda M. Douglas
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