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The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin (2011, Hardcover)

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The Dorcas society of the little church has set its collective mind to the task of re-dressing the floors -- which means cleaning the pews, too -- and if they cannot have it done by Thanksgiving, why, then, let it be by Christmas. Nancy Wentworth, at thirty-five the most vivacious of them, with her youth undimmed by her work as teacher, throws herself into the work, even the dirty business of scrubbing. She begins to clean the Peabody Pew, which starts Mrs. Sargent into the subject of that worthless Peabody son, long missing. "I know there's a Peabody still alive and doing business in Detroit," Mrs. Burbank says then, "for I got his address a week ago, and I wrote asking if he would send a few dollars toward repairing the old church." Nancy turns her face to the wall and silently wipes at the paint of the wainscoting. The blood that has rushed into her cheeks at Mrs. Sargent's jeering reference to Justin Peabody still lingers there, for anyone at all to read. From a literary point of view Wiggin's childhood was most distinctive for her encounter with the novelist Charles Dickens. Her mother and another relative had gone to hear Dickens read in Portland, but Wiggin, aged 11, was thought to be too young to warrant an expensive ticket. The following day, however, she found herself on the same train as Dickens and engaged him in a lively conversation for the course of the journey, an experience which she later detailed in a short memoir, A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912).

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Publisher
Rodgers Books, Alan
ISBN-10
1463899831
ISBN-13
9781463899837
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112023148

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Book Title
Old Peabody Pew
Author
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Historical / United States / General, Holidays & Celebrations / Christmas & Advent, General, Readers / Chapter Books, People & Places / United States / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Juvenile Fiction
Number of Pages
60 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz

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