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Hildegarde's Home

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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A country house with a wide verandah, old needlework and scented china jars gives Hildegarde Grahame plenty to investigate on the day she arrives. After her father's death and serious financial losses, she and her mother exchange their expensive New York household for a house left to Mrs. Grahame by a relative. Hildegarde approaches its faded furnishings with curiosity, finding traces of earlier inhabitants in the objects they have left behind.

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards's novel for young readers places family life and questions of conduct among these domestic details. A luncheon with the Loftus family turns conversation about food, fashionable gowns and schooling into a revealing study of manners. Hildegarde's discomfort at her host's boasting brings courtesy and consideration into focus.

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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) was an American writer who produced more than ninety books, most of them for young readers. The daughter of Julia Ward Howe and the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe, she grew up in Boston and settled in Gardiner, Maine, where she wrote steadily for six decades.

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Pages
109
Language
English
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