ITEM# 1361
The Queens Twin book By Sarah Orne Jewett

Out of print Antique book.Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899 Jewett, Sarah Orne. THE QUEENS TWIN and Other Stories. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of only 3020 copies. Abby Martin lives alone on a remote hill farm, having lost her husband early and raised her children by herself. She kept her spirits up during those difficult years by a fantasy born of a curious coincidence: she had been born on the same day and hour as Queen Victoria, and unknowingly hadmarried a man named Albert and named her first two children Victoria and Edward. After she found out, she waited toname her other children.. until she knew what the Queen had named hers. And over the years her relationship to the Queen had been the governing ideal in her life.. (Blanchard) The binding design is by Sarah Whitman

Thank you for your quick reply. I am really shocked at the price. I knew many people here wanted it, but probably figured I didn't know what I had and they wanted to buy it for nothing. I am glad I held on to it.
Thanks again!
- Ann N