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Little Citizens

by Myra Kelly

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First published: 1904
Pages: 162

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Little Citizens is a 1904 collection of school stories by Myra Kelly (1875-1910), the Irish-born American teacher who drew on her years teaching immigrant children on New York's Lower East Side. Her warm, funny tales of a young teacher and her Jewish and immigrant pupils were enormously popular, praised by Theodore Roosevelt himself. Kelly's early death cut short a much-loved career. The stories are a tender record of the immigrant classroom. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Myra Kelly

Myra Kelly was an Irish-born American teacher and writer whose fiction drew closely on classroom life in New York’s Lower East Side. Little Citizens collects stories about pupils, families, and the young teacher Constance Bailey, balancing comedy with attention to language, migration, misunderstanding, and neighborhood change.