[Gutenberg 40463] • The Little Colonel's Holidays
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- Authors
- Johnston, Annie F.
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Tags
- social values -- juvenile fiction , voyages and travels -- juvenile fiction , entertaining -- juvenile fiction , thanksgiving day -- juvenile fiction , classics , family -- juvenile fiction , christmas stories , kentucky -- social life and customs -- juvenile fiction , childrens
- Date
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.52 MB
- Lang
- en
Several chapters of this 1900-1901 tale are set in "Old Louisville." The Little Colonel and the Two Little Knights of Kentucky have grown a bit, and are joined by the Waltons, modeled after the family of General H. W. Lawton, a fallen hero of the Spanish American War. The story revolves around the search for a little girl who has been "kidnapped" by her drunken father. Yet the real interest may lie in the imagery of Victorian Louisville, good and bad, its values and mores (also good and bad), as well as the descriptions of Victorian holiday celebrations. Well known early in the 20th Century was the Halloween party at the Haunted House of Hartwell Hollow (the house really existed, but burned down by the 1930s).
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