Baltimore - Stockett, Letitia
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A teacher of English and English History at the Friends School in Baltimore, Letitia Stockett was inspired to write her not too serious history of the city when a friend told her that nothing much had been done in the way of a history of Baltimore since J. Thomas Scharf's 1874 The Chronicles of Baltimore. Rising to the challenge, she spent all of her spare time on the book, telling friends and family who were curious merely that she "had work to do". Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History was the result, a charming and anecdote-filled account of the city's history that is as fresh today as it was when first published in 1928.…mehr

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A teacher of English and English History at the Friends School in Baltimore, Letitia Stockett was inspired to write her not too serious history of the city when a friend told her that nothing much had been done in the way of a history of Baltimore since J. Thomas Scharf's 1874 The Chronicles of Baltimore. Rising to the challenge, she spent all of her spare time on the book, telling friends and family who were curious merely that she "had work to do". Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History was the result, a charming and anecdote-filled account of the city's history that is as fresh today as it was when first published in 1928.
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Letitia Stockett was born in Baltimore in 1884. She attended Eastern High School and graduated from Goucher College in 1904. She taught at the Friends School for thirty years, and is the author of The Hoofs of Pegasus , a collection of poems, as well as America, First, Fast, and Furious. She died in South Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1949.