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The Two Sisters
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SOLVED. Children's picture book : Two newlywed sisters, one buys cottage, one buys mansion [s]
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Dec 26, 2013 02:55PM
So it's a big picture book, fairly old. Two sisters (they may of been twins) are both to be married. They are given a dowry by their parents, £2000 I think. One sister spends part of the money on a small cottage and lives happily ever after with her new husband but the other sister is greedy and wants a big mansion, she spends all of the money on a huge house. She soon realises she can't live without a cook, she gives up one of her rooms in exchange for a cook. Then she realises she needs a cleaner, gardener etc to help her with the huge mansion. Eventually she has to give up every room in the mansion and her and her husband end up having to live in the attic. The characters wore Victorian style gowns and the illustrations had 'cut away' views of the mansion. I hope someone remembers this book!
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Someone else was searching for, what appears to be, this book a few years ago.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
It looks like it is still unsolved.
Hoping this gets solved. Sounds like the book left an impression; I'd like to read it.
How many years ago did you read it?
Yes that's definitely the same book, it would of been at least 15 years since I read it, so yes quite memorable! How frustrating!
Still trying to find this book!
Two years later and still no luck so 'bump!'
What country were you in when you read this book?
I think I found it: The Two Sisters by Elizabeth MacDonaldFrom "Children's Book Review", Five Owls Press, Limited, 1975:
"This moral tale is about two sisters who were each given a sum of money by their father on their marriage day: ' " Spend this wisely," he told them, " and it will buy each of you a small house, with enough left over to furnish it."
The wise sister found a small house with a garden and enough left over to buy all the furniture they needed; the foolish sister bought a huge house with all the money and then began filling it with furniture, clothes and servants by giving away the rooms until in the end she and her husband had only the bare dusty old attic for themselves..."
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