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Advice for Good Little Girls" is a humorous essay by Mark Twain, first published in 1865, which lists satirical pieces of advice for how young girls should behave. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain called it an early precursor to Twain's satirical youth novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn .
"The Widow and the Parrot" is a children's story by Virginia Woolf composed in 1922 or 1923 for a family newspaper. [1] The story follows Mrs. Gage, an elderly widow, as she goes to collect an inheritance left to her by her miserly brother, Mr. Joseph Brand. In addition to a small cottage and £3,000, Mrs. Gage also inherits a parrot named ...
A new breed of educator is helping teach Big Apple kids that anything is paws-sible. The Department of Education’s “Comfort Dog Program” has rolled out in about 50 schools across the five ...
Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope.Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known.
Rather than merely mocking the conventions upheld by sedate, waif-like princesses, she kept the appealing structures of popular fairy tales in place, filling them in with uncensored human subjects. In a wild mash-up of "Little Red Riding-Hood," Carter's "The Werewolf" follows a girl who chops off a wolf's paw.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (March 5, 2015) – A gift was given Thursday unlike any other. Catherine Wallace, 90, was given her late husband's dog tag from World War II. Her husband Jim Wallace was an ...
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.