1893 SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD’S FAIR Marietta Holley 1st Ed History Chicago IL

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1st Edition
1893
SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD’S FAIR
By Marietta Holley
Hardcover
Published By
Funk & Wagnalls Company
694 Pages
Illustrated By
Baron C. De Grimm
Marietta Holley (1836-1926) was a popular humorist, poet, essayist, and novelist who wrote under the pen name of Josiah Allen’s Wife.  Filled with homespun humor and common sense, the Samantha books were very popular in the late 1800’s and early 1900s, especially with women readers who could relate to many of the subjects (women’s suffrage, temperance, the limitations imposed on women by masculine tradition, etc.) that Holley wrote about.  In this one, Samantha and her husband visit the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.  Samantha’s descriptions of what she saw there were undoubtedly based on Marietta Holley’s own experiences at the Fair and provide a first hand look at what the Fair, the Midway, and Chicago were really like back then.
The World's Columbian Exposition was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage Columbus took to the New World.
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Condition
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Acceptable - some wear to cover and corners, ex library with ex library markings, previous owners name written on title page, binding intact, pages clean, some ripping on last page and inside back cover - see pictures
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