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Reproduction of the original: The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe by Amanda M. Douglas
Amanda Minnie Douglas (July 14, 1831 - July 18, 1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for the Little Girl and Helen Grant series published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century.Born in New York City, the eldest daughter of John Douglas and Elizabeth Horton was raised in the city of her birth with the exception of several years spent on a farm near Poughkeepsie, New York. She studied art design at the City Institute of New York City for a time before circumstances forced her to fall back on her greater talent as a writer to help support her family. In 1853, Douglas and her family moved fro...
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A young woman travels from France to Montreal in 1789 only to be turned away by her parents because of her accidental association with Jean Le Roc. Marie has no choice but to marry Le Roc and together they travel into the frozen wilderness to find a new home, with a guide -- Sganawate, a St. Regis Indian.