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Aunt Jane's Nieces At Millville
''Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville'' is a 1908 young adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. It is the third volume in "the successful Aunt Jane Series," following ''Aunt Jane's Nieces'' and ''Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad''. These books for adolescent girls constituted the second greatest success of Baum's literary career, after the Oz books. Like the other books in the series, the ''Millville'' volume was released under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne," one of Baum's multiple pseudonyms. Genre Novels for adolescent readers can take many specific forms: after the family inheritance drama of ''Aunt Jane's Nieces'' and the travel adventure of ''Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad'', Baum cast his third book as a small-town drama with a bucolic atmosphere, in which a traditional society is contrasted with the world of the ''nouveau-riche'' rising business class. In this, the book resembles Baum's earlier novel '' Annabel'' (1906). In the view of Baum biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Adult Fiction
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction. Common themes related to YA include friendship, first love, relationships, and identity. Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels. Young adult fiction was developed to soften the transition between children's novels and adult literature. History Beginning The history of young adult literature is tied to the history of how childhood and young adulthood has been perceived. One early writer to recognize young adults as a distinct age group was Sarah Trimmer, who, in 1802, described "young adulthood" as lasting from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Daring
''Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk'' is a mystery novel for juvenile readers, written by L. Frank Baum, the author of the Oz books. Published in 1912, it was a sequel to the previous year's ''The Daring Twins'', and the second and final installment in a proposed series of similar books. ''Phoebe Daring'' was illustrated by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens, the artist who illustrated Baum's ''The Flying Girl'', '' Annabel'', and '' The Flying Girl and Her Chum'' in the same period. Hungry Tiger Press announced that they would reprint the book as ''Unjustly Accused!'' in the back of their 2006 reprint of the first book as ''The Secret of the Lost Fortune''. Like ''The Daring Twins'', ''Phoebe Daring'' involves two orphaned twins, Philip and Phoebe Daring; as its title indicates, the sister takes the primary role in the second book, which delivers a plot about a good man unjustly suspected of a crime – very much as the first one did. This similarity, and lack of originality, might be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 American Novels
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Aunt Jane's Nieces Books
An aunt is a woman who is a sibling of a parent or married to a sibling of a parent. Aunts who are related by birth are second-degree relatives. Known alternate terms include auntie or aunty. Children in other cultures and families may refer to the cousins of their parents as aunt or uncle due to the age and generation gap. The word comes from la, amita via Old French ''ante'' and is a family relationship within an extended or immediate family. The male counterpart of an aunt is an uncle, and the reciprocal relationship is that of a nephew or niece. Additional terms * A half-aunt is a half-sister of a parent. * An aunt-in-law is the aunt of one's spouse and is the wife of the uncle of somebody. . * A great-aunt/grandaunt (sometimes written grand-aunt) is the sister of one's grandparent. Despite the popular usage of great-aunt, genealogists consider it more correct to use grandaunt for a grandparent's sister to avoid confusion with earlier generations. Similarly, the fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg (chicken)
The Hamburg, nl, Hollands hoen, italic=no, german: Hamburger, italic=no, is a breed of chicken which is thought to have originated in Holland (in some sources, Hamburg, Germany) sometime prior to the fourteenth century. The name may be spelled Hamburgh in the United Kingdom and in Australia. Characteristics The Hamburg is a small or medium-sized breed. Cocks weigh and hens about , with slender legs and a neat rose comb. Ring size is for cocks and for hens. Eleven different colour varieties are recognised in Germany and Holland, including silver-spangled, gold-spangled, gold-pencilled, citron-pencilled, silver-pencilled, white, black and citron-spangled; six of these are included in the American standard of perfection. Pencilled breeds are smallest and self-coloured birds are largest. There are also Bantam Hamburgs. Use Hamburgs mature quickly and are considered good egg producers. Eggs weigh about 50 g, with glossy, white shells. In literature Lalia Phipps Boone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plymouth Rock (chicken)
The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States. It is a dual-purpose chicken, raised both for its meat and for its brown eggs. It is resistant to cold, easy to manage, and a good sitter. History The Plymouth Rock was first shown in Boston in 1849, but was then not seen for another twenty years. In 1869, in Worcester, Massachusetts, one D.A. Upham cross-bred some Black Java hens with a cock with barred plumage and a single comb; he selectively bred for barred plumage and clean (featherless) legs. His birds were shown in Worcester in 1869; the modern Plymouth Rock is thought to derive from them. Other people have been associated with the development of the Plymouth Rock, as have other chicken breeds including the Brahma, the Cochin (both white and buff), the Dominique, and the White-faced Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patchwork Girl Of Oz
''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the seventh in the Oz series. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his " Oz Film Manufacturing Company." In the previous Oz book, '' The Emerald City of Oz'', magic was used to isolate Oz from all contact with the outside world. Baum did this to end the Oz series, but was forced to restart the series with this book due to financial hardship. In the prologue, he reconciles Oz's isolation with the appearance of a new Oz book by explaining that he contacted Dorothy in Oz via wireless telegraphy, and she obtained Ozma's permission to tell Baum this story. The book was dedicated to Sumner Hamilton Britton, the young son of one of its publishers, Sumner Charles Britton of Reilly & Britton. Plot Ojo, known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressivism In The United States
Progressivism in the United States is a political philosophy and reform movement in the United States advocating for policies that are generally considered left-wing, left-wing populist, libertarian socialist, social democratic, and environmentalist. In mainstream American politics, progressives generally advocate for a universal healthcare system, wage equity and labor rights, economic justice, social justice, opposition to the military-industrial complex, corporate regulation, the abolition of capital punishment, and action on climate change. It reached its height early in the 20th century. Middle class and reformist in nature, it arose as a response to the vast changes brought by modernization such as the growth of large corporations, pollution and corruption in American politics. Historian Alonzo Hamby describes American progressivism as a "political movement that addresses ideas, impulses, and issues stemming from modernization of American society. Emerging at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adirondack Mountains
The Adirondack Mountains (; a-də-RÄN-dak) form a massif in northeastern New York with boundaries that correspond roughly to those of Adirondack Park. They cover about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2). The mountains form a roughly circular dome, about in diameter and about high. The current relief owes much to glaciation. There are more than 200 lakes around the mountains, including Lake George, Lake Placid, and Lake Tear of the Clouds, which is the source of the Hudson River. The Adirondack Region is also home to hundreds of mountain summits, with some reaching heights of or more. Etymology The word Adirondack is thought to come from the Mohawk word ''ha-de-ron-dah'' meaning "eaters of trees". The earliest written use of the name was in 1635 by Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert in his Mohawk to Dutch glossary, found in his ''Journey into Mohawk Country''. He spelled it Adirondakx and said that it stood for Frenchmen, meaning the Algonquians who allied with the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bluebird Books
''The Bluebird Books'' is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The fifth book is based on a fragment by Baum and written by an unknown author. The last five books were written by Emma Speed Sampson. The origin of the title is uncertain, but the books were all published in hardcover with blue cloth. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives — a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in '' The Daring Twins'' (1911) and '' Phoebe Daring'' (1912). The Bluebird series began with ''Mary Louise'', originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, as they felt the heroine was too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daring Twins
''The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk'' is a mystery novel for juvenile readers, written by L. Frank Baum Lyman Frank Baum (; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the ''Oz'' series, plus 41 other novels (not inclu ..., author of the Oz books. It was first published in 1911, and was intended as the opening installment in a series of similar books. Baum's plan for a series of juvenile novels featuring the Daring family was never fully realized; a sequel to the first book, titled '' Phoebe Daring'', was published in 1912. Unlike many of his mysteries, adventure stories, and juvenile novels, Baum published his two Daring Twins novels under his own name, rather than employing one of his multiple pseudonyms. ''The Daring Twins'' was republished in 2006 under the alternative title ''The Secret of the Lost Fortune''. The 2006 edition carrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. History Ancient Some scholars, such as R. H. Pfeiffer, have suggested that certain ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction. In the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders (the Protestant Bible locates this story within the apocrypha), the account told by two witnesses broke down when Daniel cross-examines the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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