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Three Generations
Excerpt from Three Generations
Your mother was out walking. Much as ever she got up the long Institution steps before you came, sooner than we expected you. Your little clothes had not come home, so I wrapped you up, first along, in an Old ?annel petticoat Of your mother's.
Your mother was out walking. Much as ever she got up the long Institution steps before you came, sooner than we expected you. Your little clothes had not come home, so I wrapped you up, first along, in an Old ?annel petticoat Of your mother's.
460 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1923
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Maud Howe Elliott
39 books2 followersMaud Howe Elliott (1854 -1948) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916).
She was married to the British artist & illustrator, John Elliott (1858 – 1925) who painted the murals in the Boston Central Library. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind.
Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); Lord Byron's Helmet (1927); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).
She was married to the British artist & illustrator, John Elliott (1858 – 1925) who painted the murals in the Boston Central Library. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind.
Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); Lord Byron's Helmet (1927); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).
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