Sketches of a New England Village in the Last Century.
Boston: James Munroe, 1838. First edition. Embossed Cloth over Boards. 12 Mo, pp. 110, no illustrations. Gift inscription from mother to son for Christmas, 1843 on front endpaper. In the 1820s-1840s, it was a well-established tradition for writers, many of them women, to write about a specifical regionally inflected location..... More