Girls' Series by Jacob Abbott


Cousin Lucy

Click here for a nineteenth-century
reader's memories of the Lucy books

Click here for a nineteenth-century
(1843) review of the Lucy books

Lucy series title page

Florence

  • Florence and John (1859)
        Online at Google Book Search
  • Grimkie (1860)
        Online at Google Book Search
  • Excursion to the Orkney Islands (1860)
  • The English Channel (1862)
  • Visit to the the Isle of Wight (1863)
  • Florence's Return (1864)
 
Franconia series title page

Franconia

Juno

Click here to see the table of contents
for
Juno and Georgie and read sample chapters scanned for this website

Harlie


Mary Gay

  • Work for Winter (1865)
  • Work for Spring (1865)
  • Work for Summer (1865)
  • Work for Autumn (1865)
Click here to read
the opening chapters of
Work for Autumn
 


Abbott's Boys, Non-fiction, and Miscellaneous Series are listed on a separate page, with links to available etexts.

The etexts of Harlie's Letter and Friskie at this site 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.


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