Bertie, or, Life in the old field
Subtitle: a humorous novel
By: by Gregory Seaworthy ; with a letter to the author from Washington Irving
Contributors: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction; Humor; American Dialect literature
Other titles: Bertie; Life in the old field; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed June 10, 2002)

Once attributed to James Gregory, novelist and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. cf. W. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms, 1885, p. 443 and t.p. of the author's Lynde Weiss. The authorship is affirmed as Throop's in the North Carolina historical review, v. 33, no. 1, by R. Walser (The mysterious case of George Higby Throop)

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Transcribed from: Bertie, or, Life in the old field : a humorous novel / by Gregory Seaworthy ; with a letter to the author from Washington Irving. Philadelphia : A. Hart, Late Carey and Hart, 1851. 242 p. ; 12 x 19 cm.

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