A grandmother's recollections
By: by Ella Rodman
Contributors: Benedict, Charles W., contributor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature, 1850-1869 (NEH PA-23536-00); Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: C. Scribner
Published: 1851
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Families; Juvenile literature; Grandmothers; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Girls; Curiosity; Pride and vanity
Description: At age 15 Ella meets her dignified grandmother, Amy Chesbury, who relates stories of her life from her childhood in a wealthy but distant New York family, admits that her greatest faults were vanity and curiosity, and reveals the exciting circumstances of her meeting and subsequent rescue of her future husband, Major Armstrong.
Notes: Added title page, engraved.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.