Luck O’Lady Joan by Josephine Daskam Bacon
Luck O’Lady Joan: A Fairy Tale for Women by Josephine Daskam Bacon. 1913 F.G. Browne Co, 58 pages, unstated printing. Illustrated by Clara Elsene Williams. A children's Christmas story about an orphan girl melting a Scrooge's heart. Bacon wrote books for children and adults often with a female protagonist. She was also instrumental in the Girl Scout movement and wrote the guidebook.
Condition: Jacket VG with tanning and chips, book in VG condition with tanned endpapers.
"Of all the misers that ever laid one farthing on another and went hungry for a third to warm the two with, old Dudleigh Hartover of Hartover Chine was surely the stingiest and the meanest."
Luck O’Lady Joan: A Fairy Tale for Women by Josephine Daskam Bacon. 1913 F.G. Browne Co, 58 pages, unstated printing. Illustrated by Clara Elsene Williams. A children's Christmas story about an orphan girl melting a Scrooge's heart. Bacon wrote books for children and adults often with a female protagonist. She was also instrumental in the Girl Scout movement and wrote the guidebook.
Condition: Jacket VG with tanning and chips, book in VG condition with tanned endpapers.
"Of all the misers that ever laid one farthing on another and went hungry for a third to warm the two with, old Dudleigh Hartover of Hartover Chine was surely the stingiest and the meanest."