Girls' Series by Jacob Abbott
Cousin Lucy
- Cousin Lucy's Conversations (1841)
- Cousin Lucy's Stories (1841)
- Cousin Lucy at Study (1842)
- Cousin Lucy at Play (1842)
- Cousin Lucy among the Mountains (1842)
- Cousin Lucy on the Seashore (1842)
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reader's memories of the Lucy books
Franconia
- Malleville (1850)
- Wallace (1850)
- Mary Erskine (1850)
- Mary Bell (1850)
- Beechnut (1850)
- Rodolphus (1852)
- Ellen Linn (1852)
- Stuyvesant (1853)
- Caroline (1853)
- Agnes (1854)
Juno
- Juno and Georgie (1870)
- Mary Osborne (1870)
- Juno on a Journey (1870)
- Hubert (1870)
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for Juno and Georgie and read sample chapters
Harlie
- New Shoes; or, Productive Work by Little Hands (1863)
- The French Flower; or, Be Kind and Obliging to Your Teacher (1863)
- Harlie's Letter; or, How to Learn with Little Teaching (1863)
- Wild Peggie; [missing subtitle] (1863)
- The Sea-Shore; or, How to Plan Picnics and Excursions (1863)
- Friskie, the Pony; or, Do No Harm to Helpless Animals (1863)
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of Harlie's Letter as illustrated HTML
Click here to read the complete text
of Friskie, the Pony
Mary Gay
- Work for Winter (1865)
- Work for Spring (1865)
- Work for Summer (1865)
- Work for Autumn (1865)
The etexts of Harlie's Letter and Friskie appear courtesy of Pat Pflieger.
A complete bibliography of
Abbott's works is available at Pat Pflieger's excellent
Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read site, which also contains etexts
of Abbott's
Rollo Learning to Read, Rollo's Travels,
The Harper Establishment, and
Rainbow's Journey (Stories of
Rainbow and Lucky).
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