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Eyebright

First published: 1879
Pages: 147

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Lady Jane And Lord Guildford
20:01
After School
32:22
Mr. Joyce
29:12
A Day With The Shakers
24:57
How The Black Dog Had His Day
24:33
Changes
25:07
Between The Old Home And The New
28:21
Causey Island
28:51
Shut Up In The Oven
28:21
A Long Year In A Short Chapter
22:27
A Storm On The Coast
28:25
Transplanted
28:04

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Isabella Bright, called Eyebright by everyone who knows her, is a bright-eyed, imaginative schoolgirl when Susan Coolidge's 1879 story opens. The early chapters brim with playacting and friendship, but that comfort does not last: her mother dies, her father's business collapses, and the two of them leave for a hardscrabble farm on a small island off the coast of Maine. What follows traces Eyebright's growth from roughly twelve to fifteen as she learns to keep house, face real want, and meet reversals with steady, cheerful pluck rather than self-pity. Coolidge, best known for the What Katy Did books, wrote for girls without talking down to them. The result is a warm, plainly told account of resilience that suits younger readers and anyone drawn to nineteenth-century American domestic fiction.

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Susan Coolidge

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), an American writer born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best remembered for her What Katy Did series, which began in 1872 and followed the lively Carr children, becoming a fixture of nineteenth-century fiction for girls.