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Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow, Edited by Alice Morse Earle
Title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow
A Boston School Girl of 1771
Author: Anna Green Winslow
Editor: Alice Morse Earle
Release Date: March 7, 2007 [eBook #20765]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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DIARY OF ANNA GREEN
WINSLOW
A BOSTON SCHOOL GIRL OF 1771
EDITED BY
ALICE MORSE EARLE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895
Copyright, 1894,
By ALICE MORSE EARLE.
All rights reserved.
THIRD EDITION.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
This Book
IS DEDICATED
TO
THE KINSFOLK OF
ANNA GREEN WINSLOW
ANNA GREEN WINSLOW
FOREWORD.
IN the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston teachers. She wrote, with evident eagerness and loving care, for the edification of her parents and her own practice in penmanship, this interesting and quaint diary, which forms a most sprightly record, not only of the life of a young girl at that time, but of the prim and narrow round of daily occurrences in provincial Boston. It thus assumes a positive value as an historical picture of the domestic life of that day; a value of which the little girl who wrote it, or her kinsfolk who affectionately preserved it to our own day, never could