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  1. An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1869, which follows the adventures of Polly Milton, a young country girl, who is visiting her wealthy city friends, the Shaws.

    • Louisa May Alcott
    • 1869
  2. Aug 1, 2001 · An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Children's Literature. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

    • Louisa May Alcott
    • 1869
  3. Polly Milton is a fourteen-year-old country girl raised on old-fashioned values and invited to Boston for an extended stay with her friend, Fanny Shaw. Quite the unlikely friendship since Fanny, despite being only two years older, is no longer just a girl, not poor, and not old-fashioned. Little does Polly know the breakers which lie ahead ...

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  4. Nov 1, 1996 · Another coming-of-age novel from the author of beloved favorite Little Women. Polly Milton never questions the way she is—until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly’s age, and wouldn’t be caught dead playing in the snow.

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  5. digital.library.upenn.edu › women › alcottAn Old-Fashioned Girl.

    • POLLY ARRIVES. "IT'S time to go to the station, Tom." "Come on, then." "Oh, I 'm not going; it 's too wet. Should n't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes."
    • NEW FASHIONS. "I'M going to school this morning; so come up and get ready," said Fanny, a day or two after, as she left the late breakfast-table.
    • POLLY'S TROUBLES. POLLY soon found that she was in a new world, a world where the manners and customs were so different from the simple ways at home, that she felt like a stranger in a strange land, and often wished that she had not come.
    • LITTLE THINGS. "IT'S so wainy, I can't go out, and evwybody is so cwoss they won't play with me," said Maud, when Polly found her fretting on the stairs, and paused to ask the cause of her wails.
  6. May 15, 2022 · Louisa M[ay] Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl (1st edition) (Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 1870; OCLC 632728863).

  7. An Old-Fashioned Girl. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, fancy clothes and some other habits she considers weird and ...

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