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A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia

Amanda M. Douglas · 1897

A children's historical novel from 1897, this book follows Primrose, a young girl raised in a Quaker household who is sent to live with her fashionable great-aunt in old Philadelphia, where she is transformed from a plain Friend into a gay young damsel amid wartime troubles.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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