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)
Click here to read
the first four chapters of
Cousin Lucy's Stories
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
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)
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the opening chapters of
Work for Autumn
 


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, as well as The Harper Establishment,
and the entire Stories of Rainbow and Lucky series:
Handie
Rainbow's Journey
The Three Pines
Selling Lucky
Up the River


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