Home, sweet home
Subtitle: a holiday gift for children, or Recollections of my youthful days
By: by Aunt Fannie
Contributors: Norfolk, Fannie M., attributed name
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Fisk & Little, 82 State Street
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Albany [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Copyright date: 1855
Subjects: Conduct of life; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Recollections of my youthful days
Notes: Identity of "Aunt Fannie" is uncertain: known "Aunt Fannies" include 1) Fannie M. Norfolk, author of Faithful dog, c.1889 in "Aunt Fannie's series"; 2) author of May-flowers for the children, c.1860; 3) author of Clara Claiborne, [18--?] (OCLC #13238272). This AF had a brother Jamie, younger sisters Bella & Grace, older sister Lucy, Aunt Sarah, Uncle John, cousins Robert & Freddie; as a child she was called Annie (pages 12-16).

The "object ... [is] to urge the young to value highly the instructions of their parents ... Every effort should be made to entwine the affections of the young around the domestic fireside"--Preface.

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