Giddy Gertrude
Subtitle: a story for little girls
Contributors: Turner, Elisha, 1801 or 1802-1843, publisher
Publisher: Published by E. Turner. Copy right secured.
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Northampton [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Children's poetry; Conduct of life; Juvenile poetry; Girls; Birds; Animal welfare
Notes: In verse.

Presumably written by Goold Brown, the grammarian. In his Ms. poems (in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society), this poem appears, with other poems written by him. Text, p. 18, signed: Schoolmaster.

The American Antiquarian Society has an Elisha Turner imprint with an issue date of 1828. Elisha Turner died May 13, 1843 at age 41. See Hampshire gazette, May 16, 1843.

Alphabet on title page verso.

Heavily illustrated.

Rare Book copy: Inscribed to Jessie Heale from Emma Priest.

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

In illustrated printed wrapper.

Rare Book copy: In green printed wrapper, with oversewing by a former owner.