1886, A New Departure For Girls by Margaret Sidney, HB 1st, Lothrop Lee, RARE!

Description: ULTRA RARE, NO COPIES ONLINE, OF THIS FIRST EDITION BOOK BY MARGARET SIDNEY, PROMINENT AUTHOR OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS INCLUDING, "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew". Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard in 1886, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED with 9 full page B&W plates by F. Childe Hassam. The book is in GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION, with the main wear issue being soiling and light wear to boards. Light board edge and corner wear, corners lightly bumped, light soiling seen on front board and spine, larger stain seen on back board - see listing photos. No interior marks, very solidly bound 97 pages, followed by a 6-page (3 leaf) advertising section. On the author and this book from online: LOTHROP, Mrs. Harriett M., author, born in New Haven, Conn., 22nd June, 1844. She is best known as "Margaret Sidney." She was the daughter of Sidney Mason Stone and Harriett Mulford Stone. Her parents were from New England and connected with some of the most distinguished of the Puritan families. Mrs. Lothrop was educated in the old classic town, and, during his lifetime and till the daughter's marriage, her father's house was the center for his friends, men of letters. It may well be said that Mrs. Lothrop was reared in an atmosphere of books, having likewise the advantage of a polite education. Her genius for writing began to develop very early. At the outset she adopted the pen-name which has gained her wide popularity. All her writings have wide circulation, but the work by which her reputation was effectually established is "Five Little Peppers," and the two succeeding "Pepper" volumes... ... In "A New Departure for Girls " (Boston, 1886), she was the first to write a book for girls who are left without means of support, who are wholly unprepared to earn money, that should make them see their opportunities in the simple home-training they have received. Consequently her book has been the basis for those practical attempts to help girls, such as advising them to open mending bureaus and the like, while the countless letters from all over the country attest the success of her efforts." B69

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