tailieunhanh - Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771

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. | Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Anna Green 1 Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Anna Green The Project Gutenberg eBook Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Anna Green Winslow Edited by Alice Morse Earle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at 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 Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Anna Green Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 2 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW E-text prepared by Louise Hope Steven desJardins and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 2 0 7 6 20765 20765-h or http dirs 2 0 7 6 20765 Transcriber s Note Spelling punctuation and capitalization are as in the original. This includes the writer s various spellings of her own name. Ordinals such as 1st 2d 4th were consistently written in superscript. They are shown here as unmarked text. Other superscript abbreviations are shown with caret as MArs HonAd. The printed book included a facsimile image of a typical diary page. A transcription of this passage appears immediately before the diary proper. DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW A Boston School Girl of 1771 Edited by ALICE MORSE EARLE Illustration ANNA GREEN WINSLOW Publisher s Device Tout bien ou rien 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. . Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton