Mrs. Tree

Mrs. Tree #1

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genres: Fiction

292 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (27 February, 1850 – 14 January, 1943) was an American writer. She often published as Laura E. Richards & wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children.

Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

Reviews

[Karina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book (edition published in 1902) is now available on Project Gutenberg, through the efforts of fine folks at Distributed Proofreaders. I get to put my name on it, because I put in significant work on it to complete all the final checks and generate the HTML version. Check it out! This is general fiction book, funny, with a few illustrations.

[Kathleen Bergstrom · Rating 5 out of 5]

I admit to sometimes buying a book by its cover as I did with this one many years ago. It has a pretty cover with gold on top of the pages. I'm going through my books now, and decided it was now or never.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I was a bit confused with the characters at first since I probably wasn't paying close enough attention. Ended up loving the story so much that I just tracked down a 1905 copy of the second book.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This reminded me on a small scale of LM Montgomery. I enjoyed it though parts were a bit boring particularly when she discusses the politics of the day.