Lina Beard, Adelia Beard

The American Girl's Handy Book

How to Amuse Yourself and Others

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A reprint of a gay nineties publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 139mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780879236663
• ISBN-10: 0879236663
• Artikelnr.: 21116402

Autorenporträt

Lina Beard and Adelia Beard were cofounders of the first American girls' scouting group which became the Camp Fire Girls. Both were active in the equal rights movement for women and co-authored several books together, the most well-known of which is The American Girls' Handy Book (1893). They were the sisters of Daniel Carter Beard whose books include The American Boy's Handy Book (1882), The Field and Forest Handy Book (1906), and The Book of Camp-Lore & Woodcraft (1920).