A Little Girl of Long Ago

Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt and John Sloan. New York in the 1840s: a girl grows up between a boarding house and a small shop, watches the city fill with strangers, and learns what her family is worth when the money stops. Amanda Douglas wrote a long series of "Little Girl" books, each fixed to a decade and a city, and this one is the most exact about work and wages. The history is carried by the price of things. Forty-three plates by painters including Eastman Johnson and Francisco Goya follow the same themes of home, work, and childhood that shape Hannah Ann's New York.