The ocean child, or, Showers and sunshine
Subtitle: a tale of girlhood
By: by Mrs. Harriet Myrtle, author of "Pleasures of the country," "The little sister," etc., etc
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Addey and Company
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Children; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Orphans; Inheritance and succession; Culture shock; Aunts; Shipwrecks
Other titles: Showers and sunshine; Ocean child
Description: A shipwrecked child, coming from India to England, struggles to adjust to life as a poor orphan in an alien country but finds unconditional love in the home of a woman who later discovers the girl is her niece and a missing heiress.
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.